[whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:

> That's exactly what i would be afraid of people doing.  If I have a fast
> system why should i have to experience low quality rendering?  It should be
> the job of the platform to determine what level of performance or quality
> can be achieved on a given device.


Right, it is. The user-agent is free to map all property values to "maximum
quality".


> Typically such a property would be considered a "hint", and as such would
> likely be ignored.


Ignored by who?

Neither of these apply if the property were just a hint, but now you have to
> think about what happens to content that uses this property in 18 months
> time.  You've told the UA to use a low quality rendering when it may no
> longer be necessary, so now the UA has a choice it either always obeys the
> property meaning lower quality than is necessary so that new content
> performs well, or it ignores the property in which case new content performs
> badly.


If the quality knob is no longer necessary, why would new content perform
badly?

These hint properties are opt-in for UAs. If you don't like the idea, just
treat all values as "auto".

Rob
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