Using Web Workers for drawing using native canvas functions

Question

It\'s possible to send a CanvasPixelArray obtained via getImageData to a worker script, and let the worker script manipulate the pixels in its back

Answer 1

There's a new API to do this (currently only supported in Firefox if you enable a pref).

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCanvas and https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/webgl-off-the-main-thread/.