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Bug 19820 - Description of transformation in drawimage is confusing
Summary: Description of transformation in drawimage is confusing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML Canvas 2D Context (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jay Munro
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Depends on: 19818
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Reported: 2012-11-01 15:45 UTC by rcabanie
Modified: 2013-02-01 07:35 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description rcabanie 2012-11-01 15:45:39 UTC
See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/#drawing-images-to-the-canvas

The text for drawImage currently states:
When drawImage() is invoked, the region of the image specified by the source rectangle must be painted on the region of the canvas specified by the destination rectangle, after applying the current transformation matrix to the points of the destination rectangle.

This is a bit confusing since you don't really apply the transform to the points. Basically, you map the source rect to the destination rect and then transform the destination rectangle.
I believe the spec should also call out that there should be no loss of precision when doing this (i.e. if the destination has half the pixels but scaled by 2, the original pixel should be preserve)
Comment 1 Jay Munro 2012-11-09 22:20:56 UTC
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Status:                      
Fixed

Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/01e58cb8b32f92401d891bf2a1614fd7493cbeca

Rationale:
Applying the matrix is not on the points of a rectangle. Also clarified that the original image is not updated.
Comment 2 Edward O'Connor 2012-11-09 23:15:26 UTC
Have you suggested this change to Ian?
Comment 3 Jay Munro 2012-11-13 16:13:40 UTC
No, I thought he was watching our bugs as well. I'd be glad to suggest it. (In reply to comment #2)
> Have you suggested this change to Ian?
Comment 4 Silvia Pfeiffer 2013-02-01 07:35:43 UTC
Note, he made this change:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/babafd346a6a54643991f14e8becd307e0d0f272