[whatwg] WebWorkers and images

• From: David Levin <levin@chromium.org>
• Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:22:02 -0800
• Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Dxau+_KenbQiL0wT6z_tJ48G8AN1GgvuRCNiD@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Berend-Jan Wever <skylined at chromium.org>wrote:
>
> I ask because I wanted to port an image manipulation script to a WebWorker,
> but found out that WebWorkers have no way to use elements such as canvas
> and
> img.


fwiw, ImageData can be used in a worker. Many folks have argued that canvas
isn't that useful in a worker and that the gpu acceleration will make it
less useful (and that most image manipulation would be able to use ImageData
for its needs).

dave

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