[whatwg] Canvas Proposal: aliasClipping property

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Thu Oct 15 19:21:02 PDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> IT seems like what we should really do is either have UAs oversample
> without antialiasing and then downsample for rendering, or, if that is
> considered too expensive, provide primitives that make this a non-problem.
> For example, instead of just having the ability to draw rectangles, maybe
> we need the ability to specify a number of rectangles, and then have them
> all drawn at once, so that if they are adjacent, the UA can render them
> without the anti-aliasing artifacts between them.
>

The latter approach often is not usable in practice when you don't know much
about the scene that's being drawn, for example when you're using canvas to
implement another drawing API.

Rob
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