Bug 141886 – [iOS] Max canvas size is lower than expected

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: New Bugs

[Dean Jackson]

[iOS] Max canvas size is lower than expected

[Dean Jackson]

Created attachment 247091 [details]
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[Antoine Quint]

While I greatly appreciate this limit being bumped to a more accurate limit, what exactly is the purpose of the limit? Is it for performance reason? Memory consumption reasons? If so, why not let content degrade and/or jetsam if values are too large? Especially as there is no mechanism in place to predictably figure out, in code, whether a given <canvas> size will actually allow the content to be rendered.

[Dean Jackson]

(In reply to comment #2)
> While I greatly appreciate this limit being bumped to a more accurate limit,
> what exactly is the purpose of the limit? Is it for performance reason?
> Memory consumption reasons? If so, why not let content degrade and/or jetsam
> if values are too large? Especially as there is no mechanism in place to
> predictably figure out, in code, whether a given <canvas> size will actually
> allow the content to be rendered.

I tried Firefox and it fails silently when the canvas gets too big, like us. So I think it is worth keeping a limit in, just in case.

Note that it's a pretty bad developer experience if their page instantly quits/crashes - that gives them no way to debug without removing random code and starting over. At least with a large limit they'll get a warning in the console as to what went wrong.

[Dean Jackson]

Committed r180520: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/180520>