CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010)

Re:CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010) by jacquesm on Sunday January 08, 2023 @06:38AM (#34298253)

This may seem like a ridiculous complaint, but I actually ran into a similar limit in Chrome with respect to the width of a canvas and had to pull all kinds of nasty tricks to get around it.

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Re:CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010) by tonto on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:34PM (#34301093)

HTML5 canvases are probably subject to different rules. I have definitely run into canvas limits also. this stackoverflow from 2014 shows some limits https://stackoverflow.com/a/11585939/2129219 (looks updated in 2018 here https://github.com/jhildenbiddle/canvas-size#test-results)

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Re:CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010) by jacquesm on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:47PM (#34301237)

I tried to render a piece of music horizontally on one canvas. That didn't work past a very low limit. In the end I chopped it up into multiple canvases and scroll at most two of them at the time (there is some risk of artifacts at the point where they meet, unfortunately).

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Re:CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010) by yread on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:57AM (#34308617)

Mobile Safari lets canvas get bigger, it just gets ridiculously slow to work with

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