[whatwg] Hardware accelerated canvas

[Szymon Piłkowski]

On 4 September 2012 19:15, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 9/4/12 1:02 PM, David Geary wrote:
>
>> Sure, but those use cases will be in the minority
>>
>
> What makes you say that?
>
> Outside of games, I think they're a majority of the canvas-using things
> I've seen.


I'd like to point out that existing games and game engines are very often
relying on 'off-screen' canvases, using them as buffers to reduce amount of
draw calls and calculations (tilemaps, pre-processed sprites etc)

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