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Bug 13818 - Default resolution of canvas 300x150 feels unnecessary requirement? Maybe 1x1 or 0x0 would make more sense, or even some more standard size like VGA or WVGA.
Summary: Default resolution of canvas 300x150 feels unnecessary requirement? Maybe 1x1...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-18 06:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-19 11:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-18 06:41:14 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-canvas-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-canvas-element

Comment:
Default resolution of canvas 300x150 feels unnecessary requirement? Maybe 1x1
or 0x0 would make more sense, or even some more standard size like VGA or
WVGA.

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Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2011-08-18 07:11:18 UTC
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 300x150 is the default size for replaced elements in CSS. For canvas, this has been shipping for years and so it is very likely that content relies on it, and thus can't be changed.
Comment 2 Tapani P 2011-08-19 11:04:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
> satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
> you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please
> reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML
> Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest
> title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue
> yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
>    http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html
> 
> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: 300x150 is the default size for replaced elements in CSS. For
> canvas, this has been shipping for years and so it is very likely that content
> relies on it, and thus can't be changed.

Fair enough, however I would not be surprised that a hard coded value like this will bite you back somewhere later on in the future when content becomes more dynamical and scalable.