On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If the compositing spec were to allow GLSL/OpenCL constructs, then this >> effect should be possible. (One could argue that CSS blending should ONLY be >> done with shaders and that the known blendmodes would be built-in shader >> programs.) > > > If you allow arbitrary processing to happen in the compositing spec, you > are effectively folding the functionality of filters into the compositing > spec, maybe with different syntax. You'd better discuss with Erik if that's > what you really want to do :-). > > I know, this would be a large endeavor. :-) We're seeing that manufacturers are adding hardware support for blending/filtering to their chipsets. If browsers can tap this, it will increase what is possible without cutting down battery life or performance. Do you know much of the CSS/HTML compositing specification has been discussed? I brought compositing up a couple of months ago and Simon Fraser was of the opinion that it was better to get filters to work first and then move onto blending later. The reasoning that blending was too difficult (for now) was that it was hard to get access to the background. Rik
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