Re: canvas: globalAlpha should not throw

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> The spec doesn't call out NaN and Infinity for globalAlpha. I think 
> globalAlpha should be handled consistently with the other canvas 
> attributes and not throw an exception.
> 
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#dom-context-2d-globalalpha

The spec says:

   Unless otherwise stated, for the 2D context interface, any method call 
   with a numeric argument whose value is infinite or a NaN value must be 
   ignored.

...and doesn't appear to contradict this in the definition of globalAlpha. 
Am I missing something?

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