HTML5 canvas, scale image after drawing it

Question

I'm trying to scale an image that has already been draw into canvas. This is the code:

      var canvas = document.getElementById('splash-container');
      var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
      var imageObj = new Image();

      imageObj.onload = function() {
        // draw image at its original size
        context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0);
      };
      imageObj.src = 'images/mine.jpeg';


        // Now let's scale the image.
        // something like...
        imageObj.scale(0.3, 0.3);

How should I do?

Answer 1

What robertc says is correct, but if you really wanted to scale an image on a canvas after drawing it for some reason, you could just scale the whole canvas using the CSS width/height properties and that would scale the image without having to redraw it.