- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:18:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Cc: WHATWG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Dirk Schulze wrote: > > I think the definition of "coordinate space" is misleading in the specification. > ># The canvas element has two attributes to control the size of the ># coordinate space: width and height. > > This implies that the coordinate space is limited by this size. This is > not the case. The coordinate space can be transformed and scaled all the > time. In theory the size of the coordinate space is infinite. But the > size of the surface could be defined by 'width' and 'height'. Yeah, that's bogus. I've tried to fix the text. > The same problem occurs with the definition of clipping regions, that by > default, depend on the size of the coordinate space. A simple scale and > drawing over the size of the 'width' and 'height' values demonstrate > that the clipping region can not be measured by the size of the > coordinate space (or it could, if it is assumed to be infinite). > > For clip, why isn't it possible to just say that clip() does not clip if > there is no currentPath? This would at least avoid this trap. Fixed. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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