Re: [css-compositing] Request to move Compositing and Blending spec to CR

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Robert O'Callahan <
>>>> robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> No, the spec should not refer to blogs. Also, this is not
>>>>>> 'potentially' useful as the absence of this description has caused
>>>>>> confusion in the past.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with James. Having the spec define behavior that is never used
>>>>> by any Web feature is very confusing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Section 4 is not really needed at all since the HTML5 canvas spec
>>>>> defines the canvas compositing behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you point where that is defined in the canvas spec?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#drawing-model
>>>
>>
>> yes, that doesn't describe how you do the compositing. is it
>> 'clip-to-self', or the bounds of the drawing bitmap, or infinite bounds?
>>
>
> I think it's perfectly clear.
>
> 1. Render the shape or image onto an infinite transparent black bitmap,
>> creating image A, as described in the previous sections. For shapes, the
>> current fill, stroke, and line styles must be honored, and the stroke must
>> itself also be subjected to the current transformation matrix.
>
> 6. Composite A within the clipping region over the current scratch bitmap
>> using the current composition operator.
>>
>
> There's no practical difference between "bounds of the scratch bitmap" and
> "infinite bounds", and that's the behavior this text specifies.
>

The text doesn't say what should happen with the area outside of A. A is
supposed to be infinite as well, but is generally not.


>
>>>>
>>>>> If you want the Compositing and Blending spec to define new
>>>>> compositing modes for canvas, then define a list of operators that the HTML
>>>>> canvas spec can refer to, but don't define globalCompositeOperation here.
>>>>> Don't even mention canvas here.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's needed because the canvas spec doesn't say anything about how
>>>> compositing should happen.
>>>> I don't want to break canvas by removing this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> All you need to define for canvas is the per-pixel compositing behavior.
>>>
>>
>> No. What if there are no pixels (ie with 'clear'), you'd still want to
>> clear that area.
>>
>
> Right. So for "clear" you just have to specify that the destination pixel
> is cleared. And that's what you do:
> http://dev.w3.org/fxtf/compositing-1/#porterduffcompositingoperators_clear
>

Yes. It's cleared everywhere, even where there was no coverage/shape of A.


>
>>
>>> If a future spec will use it, the future spec can define it.
>>>
>>
>> No, we want to avoid defining the same thing over and over again.
>> Filters, blending, canvas, masking all need to build on a common model.
>> This is why we did the compositing and blending spec in the first place:
>> harmonize the different specs.
>>
>
> So define it in C&B level 2 if it's ever needed. Or move the operators to
> their own Compositing Operator spec. It still does not make sense to
> specify features that are not used anywhere in the Web platform. If W3C
> bureaucracy pushes us in that direction, let's push back.
>
>
>>
>>> Any use of clip-to-self will have to define what the clip-to-self region
>>> is for each drawing operation, which is not necessarily easy to do. It
>>> certainly shouldn't be done by saying the clip-to-self region is where
>>> alpha > 0, for the reasons James pointed out near the beginning of this
>>> thread.
>>>
>>
>> That is not what the spec says. clip-to-self=true works on the shape of
>> the element which is independent of its alpha.
>>
>
> OK, good.
>

Thanks for pointing this out. When I compared with my reply with the actual
definition of clip-to-self and James' original objection, I realized that
the spec was wrong.
Given this, I will pull 'clip-to-self=true' out and rewrite the paragraph.