8396 2009-11-29 10:42:21 +0000 clip() is fine, but why isn't there something like a stencil buffer? It's similar to clip except you turn on the stencil then render an image and only where you rendered the image are pixels rendered to the canvas. 2012-02-29 22:30:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#complex-shapes-(paths) canvas RFE P3 enhancement LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking warcraftthreeft public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29778 0 contributor 2009-11-29 10:42:21 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#complex-shapes-(paths) Comment: clip() is fine, but why isn't there something like a stencil buffer? It's similar to clip except you turn on the stencil then render an image and only where you rendered the image are pixels rendered to the canvas. Posted from: 75.5.229.136 30519 1 ian 2010-01-05 11:50:39 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: no change Rationale: There's no particular reason that there's no stencil buffer, it's just that we had to draw the line somewhere and it was drawn at what Apple initially implemented. I imagine we'll add something like a stencil buffer in some future version, if there is enough demand. We have to get what's specced now implemented before we can go ahead and add more stuff. 64707 2 ian 2012-02-29 00:04:35 +0000 Can you elaborate on what use case you have in mind here exactly? What you describe in comment 0 sounds like it could be done using just clip(). Stencil buffers as described in wikipedia have a variety of use cases but it's not clear which would be really that applicable here. 64776 3 ian 2012-02-29 22:30:35 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: please see comment 2.