[whatwg] [canvas] coordinate space definition bogus?

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Dirk Schulze wrote:
>
> I think the definition of "coordinate space" is misleading in the specification.
> 
># The canvas element has two attributes to control the size of the 
># coordinate space: width and height. 
> 
> This implies that the coordinate space is limited by this size. This is 
> not the case. The coordinate space can be transformed and scaled all the 
> time. In theory the size of the coordinate space is infinite. But the 
> size of the surface could be defined by 'width' and 'height'.

Yeah, that's bogus. I've tried to fix the text.


> The same problem occurs with the definition of clipping regions, that by 
> default, depend on the size of the coordinate space. A simple scale and 
> drawing over the size of the 'width' and 'height' values demonstrate 
> that the clipping region can not be measured by the size of the 
> coordinate space (or it could, if it is assumed to be infinite).
> 
> For clip, why isn't it possible to just say that clip() does not clip if 
> there is no currentPath? This would at least avoid this trap.

Fixed. Thanks.

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