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Re: [css-compositing] some proposals

From: Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:02:05 -0800
Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, public-fx@w3.org
Message-id: <B4CA1935-2BAF-4667-9A29-470AB50409D4@apple.com>
To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>

On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:

> Last week I sent out some ideas to update the SVG composting spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGCompositing/.
> Some people suggested some improvements which I integrated.
> 
> Here is the updated list of proposals:
> a. split up the spec in 2 sections: Porter-Duff & Blending. 
> Porter-Duff are compositing primitives that describes how 2 images (src+dst) can be merged.
> Porter-Duff will continue to use the existing comp-op property.

Can I suggest that we refer to these as alpha compositing and color compositing? I think it would make it more clear what we're talking about (at least for me :-) And given that, I think the better names for the properties are: 'alpha-compositing' and 'color-compositing'.

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