Re: [whatwg] remove resetClip from the Canvas 2D spec

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Justin Novosad <junov@google.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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>> > This is a quite widely requested feature. What should we do to address
>> > this request instead?
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>> What if resetClip restored the clip to what it was at the save call that
>> created the current state stack level?
>> In other words, restore the clip, but without popping it off the
>> save/restore stack.
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> It would be good to hear specific use cases for 'resetClip' so we can make
> that call.
> I think your proposal could be made to work with Core Graphics.
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Agreed. I only had Simon Sarris's use case in mind (app uses reset instead
of save/restore for perf reasons) when I wrote that.


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>> Also, resetMatrix could be defined to do the same.
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> Is that API defined somewhere?
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Sorry, I meant "resetTransform".  It is currently unimplemented in Blink.

Received on Monday, 12 August 2013 20:25:21 UTC