Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

[oops, resending from the right mail account, sorry]

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 21:30 +0100, yahvuu wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Am 14.11.2012 19:00, schrieb Guillermo Espertino (Gez):
> > b) support applications that still use blending in non-linear space. Web 
> > browsers, for instance.
> 
> how much support for 'web type' blending modes does GIMP really need?

This Web thing will never take off, it's just a momentary... er...
wait :)


> 
> GIMP is not a HTML editor, this has been clearly pointed out in [1].

The W3C compositing spec applies to images as well as text.
One could combine separate images as layers in a Web application.

>  supposedly, no two browsers will do it the same.
Supposed by whom? The purpose of HTML 5, and of specifications like
Compositing, is *precisely* so that all the major browsers work the same
way.

Liam

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