Re: CSSStyleDeclaration: Setting only a value or a priority

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Peter Sloetjes <pjs.nl@live.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:08:14 -0700, Rik Cabanier wrote:
>
> > Custom filters can't access the color information of the content that
> they're applied on so they can't be used. I can't tell what problem Peter
> is trying to solve with the color transformation.
>
> I created two Firefox extensions that apply some transformation to color
> data that is extracted from html content (including style rules, images and
> canvas elements). It would be nice if some general web technology would
> accept a three-dimensional color map for nonlinear interpolation in the rgb
> domain, but as far as I know, such a technology does not exist today.
>

Can this be solved by CSS Filters? For instnace see
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Applying_SVG_effects_to_HTML_content#Example.3A_Filteringfor
transforming with a color matrix.



> If you know of any or can bring one into existence, let me know. My own
> implementation works fine, but it could be faster.
>
> The actual issue is the efficiency of transformations of arbitrary style
> property values. Such transformations should not change property priorities
> and need to call getPropertyPriority in order to avoid doing so.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
> > I just need to know what the use cases are and see whether there are
> other solutions that address those use cases *better*.
>
> I could come up with use cases for any CSS style property. The issue is
> that the specification leads to inefficient code, which could easily be
> avoided by adding two simple functions.
>
> PJS, Firefox extension developer.
>
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> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:08:14 -0700
>
> Subject: Re: CSSStyleDeclaration: Setting only a value or a priority
> From: cabanier@gmail.com
> To: simonp@opera.com
> CC: www-style@w3.org; pjs.nl@live.com
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:04:32 +0200, Peter Sloetjes <pjs.nl@live.com>
> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:54:47 +0200, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
>  wrote:
>
>  Could CSS custom filters be used to address this use case?
>
>
> Clearly there are more color domains than rgba. Transforms in those
> domains do require custom implementations, because they normally are
> nonlinear in the rgba-domain.
>
>
> I don't know enough about CSS custom filters to tell if it's feasible for
> these use cases or not.
>
>
> Custom filters can't access the color information of the content that
> they're applied on so they can't be used.
> I can't tell what problem Peter is trying to solve with the color
> transformation.
>
>
>
>
>  Other use cases do not involve graphics at all, such as custom
> transformations of font sizes.
>
>
> Is IE's 'zoom' property inadequate for this use case?
>
>
>  My request is basically to remove the built-in inefficiency at this very
> low level of the specification.
>
>
> Yes, I understand that. I just need to know what the use cases are and see
> whether there are other solutions that address those use cases *better*.
>
>