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Bug 26919 - Arguments to what?
Summary: Arguments to what?
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#canvas-...
Whiteboard: blocked awaiting response from IZh to...
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Reported: 2014-09-29 08:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-08-13 05:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-09-29 08:37:58 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#canvas-serialisation-arguments
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#canvas-serialisation-arguments
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
Arguments to what?
Is this API standardized? It is strange to talk about arguments without
mentioning functions to which they applies.
// IZh


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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-09-29 16:43:04 UTC 
That whole section is just defining the in-spec "a serialisation of the bitmap as a file" algorithm, not an API. That algorithm is itself used in some APIs, though, like toDataURL(). Does that make sense?