Total canvas memory use exceeds the maximum limit (Safari 12)

Question

We are working on a visualization web application which use d3-force to draw a network on a canvas.

But now we’ve got a problem with browsers on iOS, where the proces

Answer 1

Someone posted an answer, that showed a workaround for this. The idea is to set height and width to 0 before deleting the canvases. It is not really a proper solution, but it will work in my cache system.

I add a small example that creates canvases until an exception is thrown, then empties the cache and continues.

Thank to the now anonymous person who posted this answer.

let counter = 0

// create a 1MB image
const createImage = () => {
    const size = 512

    const canvas = document.createElement('canvas')
    canvas.height = size
    canvas.width = size

    const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d')
    ctx.strokeRect(0, 0, size, size)
    return canvas
}

const createImages = nbImage => {
    // create i * 1MB images
    const canvases = []

    for (let i = 0; i < nbImage; i++) {
        canvases.push(createImage())
    }

    console.log(`done for ${canvases.length} MB`)
    return canvases
}

const deleteCanvases = canvases => {
    canvases.forEach((canvas, i, a) => {
        canvas.height = 0
        canvas.width = 0
    })
}

let canvases = []
const process = (frequency, size) => {
    setInterval(() => {
        try {
            canvases.push(...createImages(size))
            counter += size
            console.log(`total ${counter}`)
        }
        catch (e) {
            deleteCanvases(canvases)
            canvases = []
        }
    }, frequency)
}


process(2000, 1000)