[whatwg] createImageData

[Oliver Hunt]

On May 13, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> The first argument to the method must be an ImageData object  
> returned by createImageData(), getImageData(), or an object  
> constructed with the necessary properties by the user.  If the  
> object was constructed by the user, its width and height dimensions  
> are specified in device pixels (which may not map directly to CSS  
> pixels).  If null or any other object is given that does not present  
> the ImageData interface, then the putImageData() method must raise a  
> TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR exception.

If we were to add that we should include a note to indicate that using  
a custom object is not recommended -- Any code that uses a custom  
created object will never benefit from improvements in ImageData  
performance made by the UA.  That said I still don't believe custom  
objects should be allowed, aside from the resolution (which may or may  
not be relevant) and performance issues, a custom object with a  
generic JS array, rather than an ImageData object will have different  
behaviour -- a proper ImageData will clamp on assignment, and throw in  
cases that a custom object won't.

>
>    - Vlad
>

--Oliver