Return helpful error when WebGPU is disabled#9319
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Curious that we get an non-null object back that simply isn't a GpuCanvasContext and not an error either. Nasty. But I believe it. Curious what that object is for you, would be nice if you could provide that information, but lgtm either way - can't be defensive enough I figure 🤷
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* Fix for emilk/eframe_template#223 * Related: gfx-rs/wgpu#9319 By default, we would only turn on the WebGPU backend on web, which means browsers without WebGPU support would just crash. You can still opt-out of all the default `wgpu` features by enabling `eframe/wgpu_no_default_features` instead of `eframe/wgpu`
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wgpubackend: Enable WebGL fallback emilk/egui#8038Previously, if WebGPU was disabled in the browser,
wgpuwould crash with a very unhelpful error message:Tested in Firefox