[whatwg] <canvas> drawing with singular transforms and zero-sized gradients

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you define different behavior for solid colors or gradients,
> doesn't that mean that they'll behave differently from if you used an
> image that looked exactly the same?  That seems bad.
>

If you set up a path covering the entire canvas, call ctx.scale(e, e) for
infinitesimal e, and then fill with an image pattern, conceptually you're
scaling the image to be incredibly small and then repeating it a very large
number of times to fill the canvas. So I guess the logical behavior for e=0
would be to compute the average color of the image pixels and do a solid
fill with that color, which would give you that consistency you're asking
for. But is that worth implementing? No-one does that today.

Rob
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