[whatwg] More random comments on the putImageData definition

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:57:56 +0100, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:
> Another thing that we need is some way to determine what the device  
> pixel->css pixel ratio is.  Currently there's isn't even a real way to  
> tell that it's 1:1 -- you would have do do a fillRect(width-1, height-1,  
> 1, 1),; then getImageData(width-1, height-1, 1, 1) and see if they  
> match.  Conceivably you could do this multiple times to estimate the  
> ratio, but it would be non-trivial.

You can determine this by checking the height and width attributes on the  
ImageData object. If you get a 2x2 region and ImageData.width and .height  
return 4 you know there's a factor two scaling happening between canvas  
pixels and device pixels. What the factor is between canvas pixels and CSS  
pixels isn't really relevant (and easy to determine).


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Anne van Kesteren
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