[html5] Proposal for a hair width/line property when using <canvas> tag

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Shaun Morris wrote:
> 
> I am working for a company who is currently trying to reproduce 
> engineering drawings made in AutoCad within the canvas tag as a way to 
> step away from the legacy way of doing it using Java and being stuck in 
> IE.
> 
> These drawings like many engineering drawings or mapping applications 
> have to be scaled considerably and the current problem is that after 
> scaling a line with a lineWidth of 1 after being scaled 5x's has a 
> lineWidth of 5.

Yeah, currently this requires only using square zooms (not different x and 
y scaling factors) and "un"zooming the lineWidth accordingly.

I've noted this idea for addition to <canvas> at a future date. I haven't 
added it yet, since browser vendors haven't caught up with what we _have_ 
added yet! We don't want to get too far ahead of them.

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