[whatwg] proposed canvas 2d API additions

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri May 19 09:00:37 PDT 2006


On Tue, 16 May 2006, Arve Bersvendsen wrote:
> 
> Again, and this goes back to what's already been said about the RGBA 
> values in ImageData: Using floats for x,y,w,h will for all practical 
> purposes exclude canvas from ever being possible to implement in a 
> meaningful way on systems without hardware FPUs.

This seems to be a problem we've already passed; canvas uses floats 
everywhere. In any case, you could just used fixed point maths, no?

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