- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:52:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote: > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 13 May 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > >> > > >> > Can you put a note in the spec that we're thinking of changing this > >> > behavior, so developers are less likely to start depending on it, > >> > and we've got some cover in case it breaks some esoteric stuff that > >> > doesn't matter for compat? > >> > >> Done. > >> > > > > Thanks. I made this change on mozilla-central so it should appear in > > Firefox 7 about 18 weeks from now --- unless we detect that it breaks > > the Web. > > It breaks the Web, so we're backing it out. > > It turns out that a lot of canvas apps set up a shadow color and blur, > do some drawing, then disable the shadow by setting the blur to zero. > With the proposed change, those apps often render incorrectly, and > worse, they often render more slowly. Should we still make shadows only work in source-over mode, or should we leave the spec as is in this area? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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