[webkit-dev] Implementing OffscreenCanvas

[Chris Lord]

Hi all,

I've spent the last month or so 'finishing' the implementation of
OffscreenCanvas[1], based on Žan Doberšek's work from a year ago[2].
OffscreenCanvas is an API for being able to use canvas drawing without a
visible canvas, and from within Workers. It's supported by Blink and has
partial support in Gecko.

It's at the point now where I'd consider it a finished draft - it is
almost fully implemented and passes the majority of relevant tests in a
debug build without crashing, but has some areas that need completion on
other platforms (async drawing on non-Linux) and some missing parts (Web
Inspector, ImageBitmapRenderingContext). It almost certainly needs
reworking in places.

My work is on GitHub[3] - I'd like to solicit reviews and comment. Some
of the bugs hanging off [2] have patches that need review and I think
are near ready to being landable as the foundation of this work. It is
broadly split up like so:

- Refactor to move functionality from HTMLCanvasElement to CanvasBase
- Refactor to not unnecessarily require HTMLCanvasElement in places
- Implement OffscreenCanvas functionality
- Make font loading/styling usable from a Worker and without a Document
- Implement AnimationFrameProvider on DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope
- Implement asynchronous drawing updates on placeholder canvases

I expect the font-related stuff to be the most contentious, and my
AnimationFrameProvider implementation may be too trivial (but might be
ok for a first go?)

All feedback appreciated. Best regards,

Chris

[1]
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/canvas.html#the-offscreencanvas-interface
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183720
[3] https://github.com/Cwiiis/webkit/tree/offscreen-canvas