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CanvasRenderingContext2D.getContextAttributes()

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 73)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This method allows web developers to read back the ContextAttributes consumed by the platform and compare them to what were requested. Shipping this method will allow lining up with WebGL's homonymous method. [1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/blink/renderer/modules/canvas/canvas2d/canvas_rendering_context_2d.idl?l=142

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2563
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/919116

Docs: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/canvas.html#dom-context-2d-canvas-getcontextattributes

Samples: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1395882

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