Re: [whatwg] Canvas: compositing and blending operator as enumeration?

• From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:29:28 -0800
• To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
• Cc: WHATWG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <CAGN7qDAyknmby-bH0VAwMqs8P9QCm6nojVm3rvWi+skeJhWY4w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dirk,

the 'globalCompositeOperation' property takes the same syntax as the css
'mix' so I don't think an enum will work.

Rik

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After all the discussions about winding rules and the new introduced
> enumeration for "nonzero" and "even odd", I wonder if the the compositing
> and blending modes should be two enumerations as well.
>
> enum CanvasCompositingMode {
>         "source-over",
>         "source-in",
>         …
> }
>
> and
>
> enum CanvasBlendingMode {
>         "normal",
>         "multiply",
>         ...
> }
>
> This wouldn't actually change the behavior or definition a lot, but might
> help to cleanup a bit. I am happy about other names if they are not good
> enough.
>
> Greetings,
> Dirk

Received on Thursday, 10 January 2013 05:29:53 UTC