[whatwg] [canvas] inner shadows

[Rik Cabanier]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Tyler Larson wrote:
> > On Sep 20, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > Can't you do this using clip() easily enough? Maybe I'm missing
> > > something important here. Can you elaborate?
> >
> > Here is an example of what I am talking about.
> > http://i.imgur.com/Sy4xM.png
> > Clip would mask something but adding an inner shadow is different and
> > pretty difficult to reproduce when you take into account complex shapes.
>
> Ah, yeah, I see what you mean. The problem is that the canvas rendering
> model always renders the shadow under the shape, and uses the shape's
> alpha to work out where to paint the shape.
>
> What we could do is offer control that would change the shadows from
> rendering under the shape to rendering over the shape, or, maybe even
> better, have a mode that only renders the shadows. Then you could achieve
> these effects relatively easily (by clipping to the shape so that the
> shadow only renders inside the shape).
>

It would still be quite complex to draw an inner shadow this way because
the blur is calculated on the inverse of the shape.
A user will need to draw to another canvas and then 'clear' it to get the
inverse.

However, I like the fact that this is a primitive that can be used to
create other effects.


>
> Is this something implementors would be interested in?


It seems like this would be easy for them to implement...