Re: Async Image -> ImageData conversion

I'm also wondering that if we have ImageBitmap.transferToImageData(),
should we not also have ImageData.transferToImageBitmap()? Currently
createImageBitmap(imageData) appears to require making a copy.


On 26 June 2015 at 12:07, Ashley Gullen <ashley@scirra.com> wrote:

> I've updated the draft with an ImageBitmap.transferToImageData() method:
> https://www.scirra.com/labs/specs/imagebitmap-conversion-extensions.html
> It's also used in Example 2 to demonstrate converting a Blob to an
> ImageData without redundantly copying the pixel data.
>
> I don't think we should extend HTMLImageElement because it is not
> available in workers. Adding the conversion methods to ImageBitmap allows
> workers to perform conversions using Blob (compressed image data) in the
> place of HTMLImageElement.
>
> I like the suggestion that "ImageBitmap be the hub of image conversion",
> which is why I think it makes sense to add these methods to ImageBitmap and
> not create() methods on other objects. In particular
> transferToImageBitmap() seems like it ought to be an ImageBitmap method
> since it mutates the ImageBitmap, whereas something like
> ImageData.transferFrom(imageBitmap) seems unintuitive if it mutates its
> parameter. If transferToImageData() belongs to ImageBitmap, I think
> toImageData() logically should belong to ImageBitmap too.
> ImageBitmap.toBlob() is also consistent with
> HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob()/toDataURL(), where the method belongs to the
> object which represents the data source.
>
> Ashley
>
>
> On 25 June 2015 at 22:10, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> > The drawback of adding toBlob/toImageData to the various things
>> ImageData
>> > can be constructed from is that it's a bit more spec complexity, but I
>> don't
>> > see that as a showstopper, necessarily.
>>
>> We should probably stick to the pattern of either having factory
>> methods or putting methods directly on various objects. Or maybe,
>> change them all to be static methods on the various classes:
>>
>>   ImageBitmap.create(...)
>>   ImageData.create(...)
>>   ...
>>
>> I would personally prefer this last pattern for creating instances
>> where we need to go through a promise.
>>
>>
>> --
>> https://annevankesteren.nl/
>>
>
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