RE: mask: luminance or alpha

Looking at current vector artwork, 99.99% is using luminosity.
It's much easier to manipulate for a designer than alpha (since it's easier to visualize and since overlapping elements with alpha interact with each other)

Rik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:48 PM
> To: Rik Cabanier
> Cc: www-svg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: mask: luminance or alpha
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@adobe.com>
> wrote:
> > Last week, there was a decision to have the id-less mask have ‘alpha’
> > as the default instead of ‘luminance’
> >
> > Can someone explain the rational for doing this again?
> >
> > It changes existing default behavior, is not what people want or what
> > products like Illustrator and InkScape currently support.
> 
> The idea is that this *is* what people want.  We just can't change <mask>'s
> default behavior due to legacy compat.
> 
> ~TJ

Received on Monday, 30 July 2012 23:56:16 UTC