And the proposed version already shows signs of being too limited.  With a pixel-centered viewpoint, the results will not be reasonable on Apple Retina displays, for example, or when printed.  On the other hand, anything vector-based would also become complicated pretty quickly, especially for platforms that may still have APIs that are natively pixel-based.  This is not something that can be standardized easily.<p>Besides, there are parts of even the <i>current</i> standard that are broken enough to demand some replacements and deprecations.  For example, &quot;std::string&quot; and &quot;std::iostream&quot; are pretty awkwardly implemented and it would be really nice to have something better.