[whatwg] WebWorkers and images

[David Levin]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Berend-Jan Wever <skylined at chromium.org>wrote:
>
> I ask because I wanted to port an image manipulation script to a WebWorker,
> but found out that WebWorkers have no way to use elements such as canvas
> and
> img.


fwiw, ImageData can be used in a worker. Many folks have argued that canvas
isn't that useful in a worker and that the gpu acceleration will make it
less useful (and that most image manipulation would be able to use ImageData
for its needs).

dave