[Bug 11566] Image should have getContext(...) just like canvas

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11566

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-01-11 19:19:01 UTC ---
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: none yet
Rationale: We'll probably add a way to get image data straight from a
same-origin image in a future version (it's a little late in the cycle to add
features right now), so I've marked this LATER.

In the meantime, though, why is "having to generate new canvases" a problem?
It's only five extra lines of code, which are easily put into a utility
function and forgotten:

image.onload = function()
{
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    canvas.width = image.width;
    canvas.height = image.height;
    var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
    context.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
    imageData = context.getImageData(0, 0, image.width, image.height);
}

If you do this a lot, you can also just have a scratch canvas around for this
purpose, already sized to the max of all the incoming images.

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Received on Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:19:03 UTC