In the Color input explainer all the examples are restricted to the sRGB gamut.

It would be useful to add an example or two that uses Display P3 for example

ctx.fillStyle = new CSSColor("display-p3", 1, 1, 0, 0.5); // semi-transparent Display P3 primary yellow

Use SVG filters is not flexible enough, i pref using custom GLES fragment shader for filter, which provides most flexibles while not need to switch to WebGL/WebGPU.

The background: I'm using canvas2d to build a web-based UI editor framework, which is not a build-from-scratch, but mitigation from an old legacy C++ codebase. For some reason, compiling to WebAssembly + WebGL is too heavy, & i prefer using canvas2d first...

Add statistics for how many frames are painted to canvas during captureStream() and by requestFrame() while CanvasCaptureMediaStreamTrack muted is false, enabled is true and readyState is not "ended".

Since the primary use case seems to be to use the CanvasFilters with OffscreenCanvas it might be a good idea to offer a mean to postMessage these, so authors can "share" these filters across different realms, just like we can transfer ImageBitmap objects today.

Right now, there are two ways to provide filters: one for "simple" CSS filters (example: offscreenCanvas.filter = 'brightness(1)') and one for more complex SVG filters (example: offscreenCanvas.filter = new CanvasFilter([…])). Ideally, simple CSS filters could be modeled as {filter: 'brightness', amount: 1} as well, so they can all be passed in one big filter array.

The current proposal makes CanvasRoundRect about the same interface as CanvasRect, but I don't see the rationale for this choice.

As a web author I would prefer to have a roundRect() extension to the CanvasPath mixin, allowing to store it in Path2D objects maybe along with other shapes, or use it with methods like clip, isPointIn..., scrollToPath etc. and also allowing to fill or stroke many such shapes in a single call (with non negligible performance improvements).

I don't really see the point of having it outside of the "current path" and having an other method to clear pixels doesn't seem really useful either (we can already use compositing + fill() to clear from any path).

I think it would be important to port over CSS support of variable fonts, as they are an important new feature gaining a lot of traction right now.

For example:

font-variation-settings: 'wght' 700;

So should support the font-variation-settings property as attribute DOMString fontVariationSettings.

At the moment, the current workaround is to apply it crudely on the canvas element to affect all text drawn, e.g. https://codepen.io/JuanFuentes/details/bGpGpzg

@Kaiido I tweeted at you earlier but fserb also had the brilliant idea to try to contact you here. The canvas team at Google will be traveling to the bay area for a meeting with Apple folks on March 8th. We will be talking about new features for graphics on the web platform. You are cordially invited to attend! Virtually or in person. We would love to hear your ideas!
My email is [email protected] if you want to talk with me directly.

Here are some proposals with features I felt missing in the past:

• ctx.shapeSmoothEnabled = false; Allow to disable Antialiasing for primitives:
• ctx.shape( vertices_array ); Specify shape by passing a list of vertices instead of one by one.
• ctx.fillTriangle(v1,v2,v3, c1,c2,c3 ); Draw a triangle specifying 3 vertex and 3 colors, or even 3 uvs. Ideal for continuous surfaces.
• ctx.colorizeImages = true; Colorizing images by fillColor (currently I have to do hacks with globalOperation
• ctx.drawImage( webgl_texture_handler, x, y ); Being able to use a WebGLTexture Handler with drawImage (it already supports using a WebGL Canvas and most backends render canvas2D using OpenGL).

Nice to have

• ctx.transformCoordinate(x,y); a function that given a 2D coordinate it transforms it using current transform

I’m migrating a Windows GDI application to HTML using Canvas and I stumbled across the fact that canvas uses a fractional coordinate space which requires “moving” to the mid of a pixel in order to draw vertical and horizontal lines of width 1.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Applying_styles_and_colors

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any article explaining the motivation behind the use of fractional units in the canvas but after reviewing numerous canvas code examples on the web I noticed that’s its pretty common to see people adding 0.5 when drawing lines, so while I assume there are probably good reasons and uses cases for using fractional pixels (I’m far from an expert on this), perhaps it is equally applicable to have an integer only pixel mode (like in GDI) for simple cases where it is possible to establish a one-to-one mapping between whole number points on the Cartesian system and 1x1 squares on the canvas grid.

It'd be nice if CanvasGradient could have an arbitrary transform. For example, this would allow for elliptical radial gradients or skewed gradients.

This is possible with the current canvas API in some situations by 1) tracing the path with lineTo etc., 2) calling context.transform(..), and 3) calling context.fill(), which transforms the gradient while not transforming the path. But this feels both roundabout and doesn't play nicely if you want to use Path2D.

Ideally there would be a CanvasGradient.transform method that accepts a DomMatrix similar to CanvasRenderingContext2d.transform. This would be analogous to SVG gradientTransform.

Another possibility would be to allow context.createPattern to accept a CanvasGradient, as CanvasPattern.setTransform already exists.

It's difficult to implement batching in the presence of composite operations like 'multiply'.

currrent Path2D just contain the point infomation about shap. when call draw(path2D), the borwser must generate new geometry data according lineWidth and other attribuite in context.
if the path2D includs all the infomation about generate geometry, the geometry data can cache, give the chance to browser optimization the drawcall.

The <feImage> SVG filter primitive allows to load external resources and graphic elements accessible in the document.

This filter seems to create a few issues with how the canvas API works.

Fetching resources should be an async operation, this means that by the time we pass the resulting CanvasFilter to the canvas, the resource may still not be ready to be rendered. SVG doesn't have this problem, it can just rerender when the resource is loaded. Canvas can't do that.

Currently the best I can think of would be to make it take ImageBitmaps instead of URIs.

There doesn't seem to be a way to set the width height x and y properties of the filter itself.

Should the CanvasFilter constructor takes these as parameters?
Or should the input be a dictionary with the array of filter components.

I'm curious about why the naming uses "layers" as a concept with beginLayer/endLayer, instead of calling them simply beginFilter/endFilter if their sole purpose is to be able to apply filters to groups of commands. Because I excepted "layers" to be something else, more analogous to layers in a graphics editor that can be shown/hidden/reordered/etc.

Clipping to integer pixel axis aligned rects has a very different implementation than arbitrary geometry. It would be nice to be able to expose ctx.clipRect() instead ofctx.rect(); ctx.clip();

Skia and CoreGraphics both expose a clipRect() type function so there's definitely precedence for this kind of thing.

It would be useful if CanvasGradient allowed specifying a spread method, which determines how the gradient is rendered outside the [0.0, 1.0] stop range:

• Pad (current default, gradient stop is clamped to [0.0, 1.0])
• Repeat (gradient repeats in the same order past the edges, i.e. colors at [1.0, 2.0] would be the same as [0.0, 1.0]
• Reflect (gradient colors repeat in reverse past the edges, i.e. colors at [1.0, 2.0] would be the reverse of [0.0, 1.0]

This would give canvas parity with spreadMethod in SVG and SpreadMethod going back to Flash.

In the case of overlapping triangles what order are they drawn in for blending purposes? Can this be controlled?

I use .save() and .restore() as the first and last calls during drawing to reset my canvas state. Since I call save at the beginning to store the initial state basically. Outside the two calls I can cleanly clearRect just before first .save() when drawing again.

Would .reset() be like resetting to initial state in the same way as these state related methods? Wouldn't it surprise developers if it does extra things like clearing the canvas?

Perhaps separately a simple .clear() that is like .clearRect() but implies the whole canvas instead of having to define the coordinates awkwardly?

There is already a separation between what is canvas state and clearing canvas content and I think it would be a mistake to mix the two.

So my suggestion is:

• .reset() — restores the state of the canvas to the initial state, clearing the entire state stack
• .clear() — erases the pixels in the entire canvas area by setting them to transparent black

I can see that the new roundRect requires an array to specify the radius, even when the radius is constant among all corners.

Knowing that most of us are fighting the garbage collector constantly, I do not see it smart to force to pass an array with every call of roundRect.

More when other functions in canvas take advantage of the variable number of arguments, like drawImage.

I suggest to allow the radius parameter to be a number.