On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Dirk Schulze <k...@webkit.org> wrote:

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> On Sunday, November 11, 2012, Rik Cabanier wrote:
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>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 11, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Wouldn't it be better to add a new property to canvas for blending? At
>>>> the beginning, implementations are just require to use different blend
>>>> modes in combination with 'source-over'.
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>>>
>>> That could work too.
>>> There was a mailing list conversation about this a couple of months ago,
>>> and people were evenly split on the subject.
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>>> The vast majority of cases will use 'source-over' in combination with
>>> blending so maybe it's best to keep it simple...
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't make sense to me for blend mode and composite operator to be
>>> separate in CSS, but combined in Canvas. Either there are valid use cases
>>> for specifying them separately or there are not. I cannot imagine how this
>>> could differ between Canvas and CSS.
>>>
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> To be fair, the 'globalCompositOperator' property mixed the compositing
> modes with some blend modes already. Which is the fault of the WebKit
> implementation. IIRC they have been removed from the Canvas part of the
> HTML spec for some time, but were added later again. Now we have multiple
> independent implementations that support all currently specified operators.
>

Is this the 'darker' compositing mode or are there others?
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