Re: SVG masks and luminance calculations from Robert Longson on 2011-02-03 (www-svg@w3.org from February 2011)

From: Robert Longson <longsonr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:22:00 +0000
To: www-svg@w3.org, Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinqZBKk-GO7mT9X+LtCnBNrDPcD7BvpkrKOstLf@mail.gmail.com>

> I don't fully understand why masks need this kind of special treatment, if
> one wants a linearRGB colorspace why not just use
> color-interpolation="linearRGB" explicitly? The color-interpolation
> property has an initial value of 'sRGB', and it applies to container
> elements (including <mask>). To me this looks like a contradiction in the
> spec. For performance reasons I would like to propose that the default
> behaviour is changed so that it respects the 'color-interpolation'
> property, while maintaining the existing behaviour via
> "color-interpolation=linearRGB".

Erik,

Is that what Opera currently implements? If not what is it doing?

Best regards

Robert

Received on Thursday, 3 February 2011 07:22:32 UTC