Re: [whatwg] Usemap and ismap for canvas tag

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Current votes: None.

On 05/03/2008, Greg Houston <gregory.houston@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I really didn't mean to shift the emphasis to SVG at all. I don't
>  think anyone is going to try "running a Gaussian blur of a
> dynamically generated mouse-driven turbulence displacement of a bitmap
> [via] JavaScript on a canvas image."


anything they possibly can if the results promise to be cool enough
eventually. If something can be done at all with promising results on
the highest-end available PC, it would be safe enough to assume it
will be common a couple of years later.

Fortunately, Hixie is highly aware of the history of the benighted X11
Image extension - which to implement properly would have required the
equivalent of an embedded copy of ImageMagick :-)


- d.