Re: exposing CANVAS or something like it to Web Workers

On 5/14/12 10:18 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 7:09 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> On 5/14/12 10:00 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:
>>> What would web fonts do in this situation, in Mozilla?
>>
>> Probably cry. ;)
>>
>>> If I've confirmed that a font is loaded in the main thread, would it
>>> be available to a
>>> worker for use in rendering?
>>
>> Not without some pretty serious reworking. Which might need to happen.
>>
>> Of course basic text layout would also not be available without some
>> serious reworking (e.g. making the textrun cache threadsafe or
>> creating per-thread textrun caches or something), so the question of
>> web fonts is somewhat academic at the moment.
>>
>
> I meant solely for Canvas 2d.

Yes, I understand that.  Canvas 2d text still needs to be able to do 
things like font fallback, shaping, bidi, etc, etc, etc. last I checked.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:25:02 UTC