[whatwg] Canvas transform() and matrix element notation

David Flanagan david at davidflanagan.com
Mon Jul 19 14:32:01 PDT 2010


Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 7/19/10 4:54 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> By the way, 100% agreed that the multiplication order needs to be
>> defined here.
> 
> Though I would prefer to define it in terms of transformation order 
> (which one takes place first), not left-multiplication vs 
> right-multiplication, since the behavior of the latter depends on 
> whether we're considering the matrices as right-multipliers onto row 
> vectors or left-multipliers onto column vectors.
> 
> -Boris
> 

The spec does specify transformation order, but I didn't realize why it 
was doing that.  I find it kind of confusing myself.

	David



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