hixie: Clarify that drawImage() with negative dimensions is no different than with positive dimensions. (whatwg r3535)

hixie: Clarify that drawImage() with negative dimensions is no different
than with positive dimensions. (whatwg r3535)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2731&r2=1.2732&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3534&to=3535

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2731
retrieving revision 1.2732
diff -u -d -r1.2731 -r1.2732
--- Overview.html 3 Aug 2009 11:09:14 -0000 1.2731
+++ Overview.html 4 Aug 2009 05:15:31 -0000 1.2732
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
    <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
    <!--ZZZ:-->
    <!--<h2 class="no-num no-toc">W3C Working Draft 23 April 2009</h2>-->
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-date-1-january-1970">Editor's Draft 3 August 2009</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-date-1-january-1970">Editor's Draft 4 August 2009</h2>
    <!--:ZZZ-->
    <dl><!-- ZZZ: update the month/day (twice), (un)comment out
     <dt>This Version:</dt>
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
   track.
   <!--ZZZ:-->
   <!--This specification is the 23 April 2009 Working Draft.-->
-  This specification is the 3 August 2009 Editor's Draft.
+  This specification is the 4 August 2009 Editor's Draft.
   <!--:ZZZ-->
   </p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- relationship to other work (required) --><p>This specification is also being produced by the <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/">WHATWG</a>. The two specifications are
   identical from the table of contents onwards.</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- context and rationale (required) --><p>This specification is intended to replace (be a new version of)
@@ -22316,7 +22316,11 @@
 
   <p>The original image data of the source image must be used, not the
   image as it is rendered (e.g. <code title="attr-dim-width"><a href="#attr-dim-width">width</a></code> and <code title="attr-dim-height"><a href="#attr-dim-height">height</a></code> attributes on the source
-  element have no effect).</p>
+  element have no effect). The image data must be processed in the
+  original direction, even if the dimensions given are negative. <!--
+  remove that last sentence if it causes confusion. Someone once
+  suggested that 5,5,-2,-2 was different than 3,3,2,2; this is trying
+  to clarify that this is no the case. --></p>
 
   <p class="note">This specification does not define the algorithm to
   use when scaling the image, if necessary.</p>
@@ -66122,6 +66126,7 @@
   Giovanni Campagna,
   Greg Botten,
   Greg Houston,
+  Gregg Tavares,
   Grey,
   Gytis Jakutonis,
   H&aring;kon Wium Lie,

Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 05:16:36 UTC