The ImageBitmap rendering context for <canvas>

Category: Graphics
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 66)
Intent stage: None

Summary

A new rendering context that streamlines the display of ImageBitmap objects. This new rendering context uses transfer semantics to take ownership of the pixels of an ImageBitmap object, thus avoiding memory duplication and rasterization overhead.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#the-imagebitmap-rendering-context
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=658734

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

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