Re: Stroke-miterlimit handling

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 18:08 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
> I apologize if this has come up before, but I can't seem to find any
> record of it.
> 
> Synopsis: Different browsers treat stroke-miterlimit differently (at
> least on Windows 7).
> 
> IE 9 and Chrome 26 appear to follow the letter of the spec (which looks
> like it was derived from PostScript behavior). Unfortunately, this leads
> to an abrupt discontinuity in the appearance of a line join as its angle
> crosses the miter limit threshold.
> 
> Firefox 20, on the other hand, uses a different formula, one which
> appears to be similar to that used by Windows Presentation Foundation.
> Although its behavior doesn't follow the spec, it at least avoids the
> discontinuity.

I don't see the difference between Firefox and Chrome on Linux. Perhaps
you could post a PNG of the difference?

Received on Friday, 10 May 2013 06:56:56 UTC