[whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > I don't see why the imagedata API isn't suitable for that. It's not 
> > like if you're painting that on the canvas you'll want to leave the 
> > last row or column unaffected. You'll want to clear it or some such, 
> > in practice.
> 
> I believe in this case the page actually wants to create a canvas for 
> each intermediate state, so needs to create canvases sized 1 imagedata 
> pixel smaller than a given canvas....  Just painting to a canvas of the 
> old size isn't right, since it'll then take too much space in the 
> layout.

That seems like an unnecessarily complicated way of doing things.

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