On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
> > For DOMRect I suggest:
> > [Constructor(double left, double top, double width, double height)]
> > For DOMQuad:
> > [Constructor(DOMRect rect),
> > Constructor(DOMPoint p1, DOMPoint p2, DOMPoint p3, DOMPoint p4)]
>
> Yeah, these are all good.
>
> > One question about the DOMRect constructor: Should we allow negative
> > width/height? I think not. (And APIs should never create DOMRects with
> > negative width/height.)
>
> We should "allow", where that means at least "not throw". I'm
> undecided on whether it should clamp to zero, or just construct the
> appropriate rectangle (with a top/left different from what you passed
> in). Or just go ahead and allow negative width/height directly, with
> the obvious mapping to a quad? That would mean that the top/left
> properties aren't actually the top left corner of the shape, though.
>
Yes, that sounds bad. I think it'd be best to have the DOMRect constructor
flip things around to ensure that width and height are not negative.
Rob
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