[whatwg] Canvas lack of drawString method

[David Hyatt]

Yeah I see what you mean.  In addition to a drawText you probably  
want something like a metricsForText API that would tell you the  
extent of the string and the font metrics (line height, ascent,  
descent, baseline).

dave

On Oct 25, 2006, at 3:10 AM, James Graham wrote:

> David Hyatt wrote:
>> I'm very reluctant to expose font metrics and information (yet).   
>> I think once you start getting into specifying fonts, you open up  
>> a can of worms that would make this sort of API addition a lot  
>> harder.
>
> I still believe that any api that does not allow the author to  
> query the size of the text bounding-box[1], i.e. the overall width  
> and height of the box enclosing the text fragment, is useless for  
> many of the use cases presented so far e.g. figure labelling as,  
> without this information, it is impossible to ensure that adjacent  
> text fragments do not overlap.
>
> [1] I mean that in a non-technical sense
>
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