[whatwg] More random comments on the putImageData definition

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Feb 10, 2008 10:07 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:

> That said, basically what you're saying is that canvas should not support
> hidpi.  At all. There is no need to request the dpi of a canvas, but (and
> here's the critical bit) you can't have get/putImageData work at a different
> resolution from the backing buffer.
>

Why not?

Their sole purpose is to be a 1:1 mapping to the canvas backing store, so
> saying get/putImageData should work in canvas pixels and not device pixels
> seems to defy the whole reason for this API existing.
>

It seems to me the API would still be useful even if it downsampled the
backing store.

I guess we'll just cross our fingers and hope Web developers get it right.
We could implement a higher-resolution canvas backing store for Firefox, but
that wouldn't really help since most developers won't test with a setup that
would trigger it.

Rob
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