[whatwg] High-density canvases

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > > Pinch-zoom is hard because we don't want to trigger reflows or other 
> > > expensive behavior on pinch-zoom. I'd leave pinch-zoom out of it for 
> > > now.
> >
> > Unless I'm missing something fundamental, changing the pixel density 
> > doesn't cause a layout, it's changing the width that causes a layout.
> 
> Changing pixel density does cause a layout in Gecko. For example we 
> round CSS border widths to a whole number of device pixels. (This 
> ensures that when page zoom is applied, all borders with the same 
> specified width are rendered with the same visual width.) On some 
> platforms (Windows), changing pixel density affects text hinting which 
> affects text layout.

So how do you do pinch-zoom under the hood on mobile devices?

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