Re: exposing CANVAS or something like it to Web Workers

On 5/14/12 8:58 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:
> I agree... Can we get this off the main thread?

"Maybe".

It would be pretty nontrivial in Gecko; last I looked it would be pretty 
painful in WebKit too.  Can't speak for other UAs.

> Svg via image is not quite the same as svg via HTMLDocument (I guess I mean, embedded).

Sure, but that doesn't matter.

> Afaik, svg via image does not have any script controls but it does have xsl things.

And CSS.

> Put in other words:<img src=image.svg>  may use an entirely different implementation than<svg>  in an HTML document.

It _may_, but it would likely be pretty buggy.  And at least in Gecko, I 
don't think we're willing to duplicate enough of the rendering engine to 
do this.

-Boris