Grid drawn using a <canvas> element looking stretched
Please try it outside jsfiddle, maybe jsfiddle is applying some linear transformation.
Also please make sure that you add 0.5 everywhere to both x and y coordinates. Alternatively, you can apply translate(0.5, 0.5) to shift all coordinates by half a pixel.
I've found the problem. I was setting the dimensions of the <canvas>
using CSS, when you actually have to set the width and height attributes. This was causing it to be stretched/skewed.
var canvas = $('<canvas/>').attr({width: cw, height: ch}).appendTo('body');