[whatwg] Compatibility problems with HTML5 Canvas spec.

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> 
> I agree that throwing an exception is probably unnecessary, as there are very
> few other places in the API where such exceptions are thrown (except when the
> input is of clearly the wrong type).  Normalizing seems to be the most useful
> approach -- that is, the functions that take x,y,w,h would be defined to
> create a rectangle with its two corners being (x,y) and (x+w,y+h), regardless
> of the sign of w/h

I've gone through the canvas API and defined this behaviour for all 
methods that took rects of one kind or another.

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