[whatwg] More random comments on the putImageData definition

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Feb 11, 2008 2:57 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 10, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Not really -- a developer would need to do work to handle browsers that
> did not support the newer hidpi apis. The alternative (a css property or
> whatever) would allow a developer to use a single API, but tell the browser
> that they were aware that there may not be a 1:1 ratio between the requested
> region and the amount of data returned -- effectively it would be a flag to
> say "hey i actually do know the spec, and am not blindly expecting this to
> work on everyone else's computer just because it works on mine"
>

OK, but I wouldn't use a property, I'd use a content attribute, because you
want to be able to work with <canvas> elements that aren't in a document and
thus don't really have style.

Rob
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