Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-20 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 11/20/10 3:59 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: This response is from the digest: I'm glad to see activity here. Canvas is supposed to be resolution independent, No, it's not. Vector images are supposed to be resolution independent. Canvas is very explicitly a _bitmap_. It's not a vector imag

Re: [whatwg] fxCanvas 0.2 and some remarks about canvas spec

2010-11-20 Thread Dirk Schulze
Depending on how the Path object gets implemented, there could be a lot more benefits. E.g. the Context could be transformed without transforming the path. It would be possible to get a point at a given length on a path or the path length itself. It would be possible to get a segment on a path o

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-20 Thread Charles Pritchard
This response is from the digest: I'm glad to see activity here. As I can't figure out how to hit reply in thread, I'll take some editorial discretion here and just summarize it, so we can make a decision on the use case. Ojan calls for: "good use-cases for the general web", Boris implies that

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-20 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Simon Fraser wrote: > On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > To be clear, chrome.tabs.getZoomPercentage is a Chrome extension API. Having > extensions that can mess with zoom seems like a legit use-case. But I agree, > I can't think of good use-cases for

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-20 Thread Simon Fraser
On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Robert O'Callahan > wrote: > Most of the use cases for script access to the exact device pixel ratio that > I've heard boil down to "interfere with the user's ability to zoom", which is > why I haven't been eager

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-20 Thread Ojan Vafai
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > Most of the use cases for script access to the exact device pixel ratio > that I've heard boil down to "interfere with the user's ability to zoom", > which is why I haven't been eager to make it easier. > To be clear, chrome.tabs.getZoom