[whatwg] Canvas size and double buffering.

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Brian Campbell <lambda at continuation.org>wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:55 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Brian Campbell <lambda at continuation.org>
> wrote:
> > I think the most reasonable approach would be to say that the
> getBoundingClientRect().width or height is rounded to the nearest pixel.
> Boxes are displayed rounded to the nearest pixel, with no fractional pixels
> being drawn, right?
> >
> > No.
>
> In what cases are fractional pixels drawn? I see fractional widths being
> returned here, but it seems to be drawing rounded to the nearest pixel:
>
> http://ephemera.continuation.org/percentage-width.html
>

Box edges are (usually) snapped to the nearest *device pixel* boundary. That
is not the same as rounding the CSS pixel width or height to the nearest
integer.

Rob
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