Re: Order of graphical operations and transforms

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks Dirk!

//emil

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Emil Björklund <bjorklund.emil@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In reading the Compositing and Blending spec, it mentions the order of
> graphical operations for filters, clipping, masking and opacity.
> >
> > In my head, transforms take place in the same space as these steps, i.e.
> when the style calculation is done and the element is moved into some sort
> of temp bitmap and then composited onto the page.
> >
> > I cant seem to find any spec documentation as to where transforms fit
> into this chain. Is there any?
>
> All the operations you listed above happen in the local coordinate space
> of the element the effects get applied to. CSS Transforms modifies this
> coordinate space of the element (not the element itself). A pixel still is
> a pixel in the local coordinate space of the element. It is the outside
> perception that changes. Therefore, a CSS Transform is outside of the
> order. Implementations probably will still track transformations to avoid
> pixelation on filter, masking or blending operations.
>
> Greetings,
> Dirk
>
> >
> > //emil
>
>