Re: comments on Matrix

I updated the matrix proposal:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FXTF/raw-file/default/matrix/index.html

- removed the exception from invert/inverse
- moved to unrestricted doubles
- removed the decompose method (I left the decomp/recomp logic for now)
- renamed matrix to cssmatrix

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 21, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Brandon Jones <bajones@google.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'd like to throw another voice in against throwing exceptions. The
> faulty assumption here being that if a matrix fails to invert this is worth
> stopping the entire app for.
> >>
> >> Realistically most authors will blindly invert and never give a second
> glance to the result. If invert throws this will result in many apps simply
> halting, with the only way to get it back being a refresh. If invert
> returns NaNs or similar most apps will have a bit of graphical data
> flicker, become lit incorrectly, or possibly disappear. Depending on the
> structure of the app this may naturally resolve itself within a frame or
> two. While you can argue that a throw will make invert issues easier to
> debug I feel that most authors would rather have a suboptimal user
> experience than no user experience.
> >>
> >> If you absolutely MUST retain compatibility with this aspect of
> SVGMatrix then so be it, but I would highly favor including a non-throwing
> variant and promoting that one as the preferred call.
> >>
> >> I think that's fine. We'll add another invert call that returns a
> boolean and takes a matrix.
> >
> > Before we do that, we certainly should investigate in Tab's complain
> that applications may not even check for the exception or do not care. Tab,
> do you know how we could do that?
>
> Look at a bunch of JS graphics libraries that use SVG and don't roll
> their own matrices?
>
> (If you can't find any, that's sufficient evidence that it's probably
> safe to change. ^_^)
>
> ~TJ
>