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imageSmoothingQuality attribute for CanvasRenderingContext2D

Category

Graphics

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 54)

Intent stage

None

Summary

It allows a web developer to choose the quality/performance tradeoff when scaling images. There are 3 options in total: low, medium and high.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#imagesmoothingquality
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=540761

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/imageSmoothingQuality

Samples: https://jsfiddle.net/khru0mzj/ https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0BySFHAS13VhbRVBUM3dHaDV3VFU/view

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