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    <bug>
          <bug_id>9164</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-02-27 18:12:57 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>If maxWidth = 0, repeatedly choosing smaller font sizes will never result in a zero-width piece of text, so steps 3-4 loop infinitely; there should be some way to e.g. abort and draw nothing if maxWidth is too small.  [pt]</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:55:03 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-context-2d-filltext</bug_file_loc>
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          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>LC</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
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    <commentid>32723</commentid>
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    <bug_when>2010-02-27 18:12:57 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-context-2d-filltext

Comment:
If maxWidth = 0, repeatedly choosing smaller font sizes will never result in a
zero-width piece of text, so steps 3-4 loop infinitely; there should be some
way to e.g. abort and draw nothing if maxWidth is too small.  [pt]

Posted from: 212.183.140.35</thetext>
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    <commentid>34109</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-03-30 01:32:41 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;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: If maxWidth=0, then font size 0 is the only solution, but it is still a valid solution, and the algorithm would terminate.</thetext>
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