CSS Paint API (Houdini)

Category: Houdini
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 65)
Intent stage: None

Summary

CSS Paint API defines a new callback which is designed to allow developers to write code which produces a CSS <image> during the paint phase of the rendering engine.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.css-houdini.org/css-paint-api/
Firefox: In development
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/578252

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/paintapi

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/houdini-samples/tree/master/paint-worklet

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