- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:49:01 -0700
On May 13, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: > > On May 13, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > >> I think we need a list of use cases for ImageData, off the top of >> my head i can think of: >> * filters -- in general a single write per pixel, potentially >> multiple reads >> * Generated images -- still arguably single write per pixel >> * I'm not sure what to call this -- but things like http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html >> >> I honestly can't think of something that would (sanely) expect to >> be writing multiple times to the same pixel between blits, but i >> should note i haven't actively spent any significant time trying to >> come up with these. That said in all of the above cases the cost >> of immediate clamping is technically the same as delaying the >> clamp, although it also has the benefit of allowing reduced memory >> usage. > > Yeah, those are all good use cases -- it just seems like requiring > immediate clamping is basically specifying for a specific > implementation, when the overall goal is "checking for invalid > data". Specifying that the error should come from putImageData > would give implementations more flexibility, without limiting error > checking. Wouldn't delaying clamping and error checking make it hard to use a native pixel data array as the ImageData backing store? In fact it would make it pretty much impossible unless you at least clamp/round/ throw when reading the data from JS. And even then, such an ImageData implementation would have to taint itself to record whether an error had occurred. Regards, Maciej
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