On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org>wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl>wrote: > >> Maybe we should have <img>.srcObject similar to what we're doing for >> media elements. <img>.src can simply return about:imagebitmap or some >> such. That way you can also assign a Blob to an <img> element without >> having to do the weird createObjectURL() hack that might leak memory >> if you're not careful. >> > > I like this approach, but I think it's simpler to continue to have > HTMLImageElement.src reflect the "src" content attribute. > > I wonder what kind of broader effect it would have if image content can no longer be uniquely identified or retrieved using a URL. In many places in Blink/WebKit (and presumably other implementations as well) URLs are used as keys and handles for image resources. All of that would have to be refactored.
