[Bug 12586] Suggest using Typed Array for ImageData pixels. Add a new 'buffer' attribute that references ArrayBuffer of the pixel data. Convert 'data' (CanvasPixelArray) to Uint8Array view of 'buffer'.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12586

--- Comment #13 from Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com> 2011-10-20 02:33:55 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Yes, you are.  Consider a computation that in fact always produces values in
> the range 0-255 but is subject to the usual floating point rounding errors.  If
> you truncate, you will never get 255 out of it.
> 
> For many computations the end result of this as the computation is iterated is
> for all the color channels to collapse to 0...
> 
> So you really do want rounding.

Sorry for missing this on first glance.

It looks like this was fixed with the [Clamp] tweaks in the September 27 update
to the Web IDL editors' draft. See
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#changes .

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