You are right, thanks a lot for shedding the light! -Jane
On Sep 11, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Anatoly Geyfman wrote:

> are you running this via the file system or through a server? The DOM 
> Exception you see is most likely because you cannot do CANVAS manipulation 
> without accessing the file through an http server. 
> 
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> Anatoly Geyfman
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> 
> On Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Jane wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I am a newbie on JS and was trying to do alpha blending without a
>> full success for a couple of days. The code is here:
>> 
>> var img1 = document.getElementById('foreground');
>> var img2 = document.getElementById('background');
>> var canvas = document.getElementById("result");
>> var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
>> var width = img1.width;
>> var height = img1.height;
>> canvas.width = width;
>> canvas.height = height;
>> var alpha = 0.5;
>> var pixels = 4 * width * height;
>> // get foreground image data
>> context.drawImage(img1, 0, 0);
>> var image1 = context.getImageData(0, 0, width, height);
>> var imageData1 = image1.data;
>> // get background image data
>> context.drawImage(img2, 0, 0);
>> var image2 = context.getImageData(0, 0, width, height);
>> var imageData2 = image2.data;
>> // alpha blending
>> while (pixels--) {
>> imageData1[pixels] = imageData1[pixels] * alpha +
>> imageData2[pixels] * alpha;
>> }
>> // send the result to canvas
>> image1.data = imageData1;
>> context.putImageData(image1, 0, 0);
>> 
>> 
>> I found that Safari displays blended image just fine. However in
>> Chrome, the line on context.getImageData triggered the following error
>> message:
>> 
>> 58 Uncaught Error: SECURITY_ERR: DOM Exception 18
>> 
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>> 
>> Jane
>> 
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