[whatwg] Canvas in Workers

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Nov 16 13:13:21 PST 2012


On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Oliver Hunt wrote:
>
> postMessage already has an ownership transfer list, we could always 
> extend the set of transferable types to include a canvas like thing (the 
> context or some such).

That's what CanvasProxy is.


> IIRC the last time I suggested having canvas (or at least canvas-like) 
> APIs available in workers it turned into a spec for rotating and scaling 
> images (which i still don't fully understand).

Yeah, this is intended to make that kind of thing unnecessary.

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