- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:39:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>
> Imagine an SVG file displayed in an img: <img id="i" src="my.svg" ... >
>
> The SVG file can have an explicit size (height and width attributes, in
> a variety of CSS units), or it can have no size (defaulting to "100%").
> Whether or not the SVG file has explicit units, it may have an intrinsic
> aspect ratio (via the viewBox attribute).
>
> The img can have an explicit size (height and width attributes) or no
> size. Separate from these, it may or may not have a separate display
> size (CSS units).
>
> Now imagine that the user draws this img to a canvas:
>
> myCanvasContext.drawImage( document.querySelector('#i'), 0, 0 );
>
> In each of the eight combinations of (img heightwidth/CSS
> heightwidth/SVG heightwidth) being present or not, what are the
> intrinsic dimensions of the "image" drawn to the canvas?
As others have pointed out, this is defined by reference to the CSS
"Concrete Object Size Resolution" algorithm.
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