Re: Enabling pixel grabbing in SVG just like Canvas

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> At SVG Open, there was discussion today about adding Canvas's pixel
> grabbing APIs to SVG, with claims that SVG implementations don't necessarily
> retain a rendering surface. It now occurs to me that there is a CSS property
> ('enable-background') in the SVG 1.1 spec just for this purpose:
>
> * http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundImage
>
> Pixel grabbing APIs in SVG could require that 'enable-background' is placed
> on the outermost <svg> element as a hint to the implementation that it needs
> to retrievable retain pixel values for image.
>
> Note that implementations pretty much have to implement saved rendering
> surfaces to do group opacity even if they haven't implemented filter effects
> yet.
>

Why don't we just make it more convenient to render SVG to <canvas> and then
use canvas's getImageData?

Rob
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