[whatwg] proposed canvas 2d API additions

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
>
>     boolean pointInPathFill(in float x, in float y);

This sounds fine to me (though it means you have to spin through creating 
many paths for hit testing, instead of just hanging on to a particular 
path and hit testing a list of paths, which seems silly).


>     float [] getPixels (in integer x, in integer y, in integer width,
> in integer height);
>
>     void putPixels (in float [] pixels, in integer x, in integer y, in
> integer width, in integer height);

I don't understand how these are supposed to work when the underlying 
bitmap's device pixel space does not map 1:1 to the coordinate space.

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