[whatwg] Canvas 'darker' operator

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Mathieu HENRI wrote:
> > 
> > I've referenced the paper and dropped 'darker'.
> 
> Please, please, pretty please, bring 'darker' back.
> Rename it 'multiply' if you want, or if like me you think this name better
> reflects the operation previously known as 'darker'.
> 
> 
> Here is a list of use cases for 'darker', I already applied in realtime
> animations: [...]

The reason I dropped 'darker' wasn't lack of use cases, it was lack of a 
formal definition and lack of hardware support. Can you point to a 
definition of 'darker' that is defined to the level of the Porter-Duff 
operators and has native support in the primary graphics libraries?

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