[whatwg] More random comments on the putImageData definition

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Feb 11, 2008 1:05 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:
>
> i was thinking having a style property, say, canvas-dpi: auto|device or
> something, where the default auto value automagically does the evil
> downsampling the moment a data routine is used, and device would result in
> the right thing.  That said neither of these are particularly nice. OTOH it
> would allow those who use get/putImageData to implement a basic video buffer
> (eg. the msx demo, etc) to continue to do so.
>

Wouldn't it be equivalent, yet simpler, to just define get/putImageData to
do the evil 'auto' thing, and have additional methods to do the right
'device' thing?

Rob
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