[whatwg] Counterproposal for canvas in workers

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't remember "multiple workers accessing the same canvas" and I'm not
> >> quite sure what it means.  I do remember "a single (WebGL) context
> >> rendering to multiple canvases".  Is that what you're thinking of?
> >>
> >
> > I went back over the history and that was indeed his use case.
> >
>
> That's a good use case, I've wanted to do that myself.  We haven't tried
> very hard to fit it into the WorkerCanvas approach yet, and it may also be
> that the best way to do that is orthogonal to the whole "canvas in workers"
> use case.
>

That's not really a use-case. What would you actually be trying to do? IIUC
Ken agreed that his use-cases that appeared to require a single context
rendering to multiple canvases would be addressed just as easily (or
better) by using multiple image elements, a single canvas, and doing
"image.srcObject = canvas.transferToImageBuffer()".

Rob
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