[whatwg] Canvas methods and exceptions
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Fri Feb 1 15:30:25 PST 2008
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Oliver Hunt wrote:
>
> In a recent foray into the world of canvas compatibility I've noticed that a
> number of canvas methods are defined as throwing exceptions on "invalid" input
> which aren't really insane, for example
> * clear/fill/drawRect with negative width/height
> * drawImage with negative sx/sw
> * putImageData with pixel data outside of the 0-255 range
Already fixed.
> Following the idea of doing the least surprising action, i think we
> should go through the Canvas spec and remove "surprising" exceptions.
> For instance a negative width for a rectangle should not terminate
> execution (although whether it should fail silently, or just draw the
> rect as though it were positioned differently is a question that would
> need to be answered), ditto for the other cases that i mentioned.
I did this yesterday; if you see any that I missed, please let me know.
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