On Monday 21 January 2013, Benjamin Poulain wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Zoltan Herczeg <zherc...@webkit.org> wrote: > > In WebKit both RGBA and BGRA formats are used for different purposes and > > different platforms in WebKit. Do we have a policy which one we prefer? > > It would be nice to reduce conversions between them in the future as it > > seems costly on embedded systems. > > The Web APIs use RGBA (E.g. > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/2dcontext/html5_canvas/#canvas-pixel-array > buffer ) > Using that internally will prevent conversion at the boundaries > JS<->WebCore. > > Internally, each port should be able to use any format. On some embedded > systems, it can be advantageous to use 24 bits colors (or even 16 bits > sometimes). > > Where in WebKit do you experience problems with color conversion? > Well, for one thing. The Color class and RGBA32 type are encoded as ARGB, not as RGBA which is needed for JavaScript.
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