- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:52:33 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:43:10 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Oliver Hunt wrote: > > > > > > Another thing that we need is some way to determine what the device > > > pixel->css pixel ratio is. Currently there's isn't even a real way to > > > tell that it's 1:1 -- you would have do do a fillRect(width-1, height-1, > > > 1, 1),; then getImageData(width-1, height-1, 1, 1) and see if they > > > match. Conceivably you could do this multiple times to estimate the > > > ratio, but it would be non-trivial. > > > > Why would you need that data? > > The moment people start using getImageData() as storage mechanism (which they > will if browsers do not fix their data: image origin stuff) you'll have a > problem So you want to change the spec and get browsers to implement something to work around a problem with browsers implementing something else in the spec? :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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