Comment by DaleCurtis
14 hours ago
Unfortunately canvas (rgb'ish) can't overlay as efficiently as <video> (yuv'ish), so there is some power cost relative to the lowest power video overlays.
It really only matters in long form content where nothing else on the page is changing though.
> It really only matters in long form content where nothing else on the page is changing though.
Did you not just describe at least 99% of all web video?
If only that were true, battery usage would be much better :) Just consider the prominence of content like tiktoks/shorts/reels/etc alone.