On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 1/27/10 1:09 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Zack Weinberg<zweinberg@mozilla.com> wrote: >>> Incidentally, those patches use square dots for borders that are less >>> than three device pixels wide, which I think should be officially >>> allowed. >> >> I think that, when you're dealing with only 2px-wide lines, a square >> *is* round as a degenerate case. > > That's highly nonobvious. If you actually try to draw a circle of that size, graphics libraries will do all sorts of things with antialiasing, including subpixel anialiasing in some cases, to make it look "round". > > It probably needs to be explicitly called out that none of that is necessary. Good point. Grey dots when you ask for black would be a bad thing.
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