> On May 2, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > with the release of DCI-P3 screen, WebKit began supporting the display of > high gamut images. > Specifically, if you have an image with a DCI-P3 profile, its pixels render > untouched on the new displays. > > However, if you try do do any sort of canvas manipulation, you will see that > the colors are being compressed to sRGB and you will lose the depth of the > color. > > Was it an oversight to always create the canvas imagebuffer in sRGB? [1]
No, this was a deliberate choice. We can't change author expectations for what getImageData() return. > If this is as-designed, how can we work around this limitation? With possible future enhancements to the canvas spec that allow authors to request backing store with a different format and/or color profile. > > PS > I asked the same question on WhatWG. [2] > > > 1: > https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/112c663463807e8676765cb7a006d415c372f447/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/ImageBuffer.h#L73 > > <https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/112c663463807e8676765cb7a006d415c372f447/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/ImageBuffer.h#L73> > 2: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2016Apr/0036.html > <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2016Apr/0036.html> Simon
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