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Bug 24177 - Canvas Pixel ArrayBuffer should return RGBA for big-endian and ABGR for little-endian machines
Summary: Canvas Pixel ArrayBuffer should return RGBA for big-endian and ABGR for littl...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML Canvas 2D Context (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jay Munro
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Depends on: 24175
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Reported: 2013-12-29 23:50 UTC by Arthur Y
Modified: 2013-12-31 04:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Arthur Y 2013-12-29 23:50:11 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #24175 +++

Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#pixel-manipulation
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#pixel-manipulation
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
Canvas Pixel ArrayBuffer should return RGBA for big-endian and ABGR for
little-endian  machines

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 rcabanie 2013-12-31 04:43:07 UTC 
Platform specific details should not leak to a high-level API like Canvas 2D.
In addition, this API is widely deployed on current browser and can't change.

There have been requests similar to this use case. Justin Novosad from Google summarized them here: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/ImageBitmap_Options