[whatwg] Canvas Proposal: aliasClipping property

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Sat Oct 17 01:06:54 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> I think there is a reasonable argument that the spec should be changed so
> that compositing happens only within the shape. (In cairo terminology, all
> operators should be bounded.) Perhaps that's what Safari and Chrome
> developers want.
>
>
> This is the behaviour of the original canvas implementation (and it makes a
> degree of sense -- it is possible to fake composition implying an infinite
> 0-alpha surrounding when the default composite operator does not do this,
> but vice versa is not possible).
>

Can't you just clip to the shape?

That said I suspect we are unable to do anything this anymore :-/
>

If Safari and Chrome currently do bound composition to the shape, and always
have, then surely it's not too late to spec that?

Rob
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