[whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Jul 2 16:01:55 PDT 2006


On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, this is all a straw man -- this isn't the reason that the spec 
> > doesn't allow this. It doesn't allow this because Safari didn't do it 
> > this way in the first place, and changing it would likely introduce 
> > bugs (while still not helping authors for some time anyway).
> 
> It's still early in the life of the canvas element, and we still have 
> the luxury of listening to good proposals. We can deal with the minor 
> problems that arise, and authors down the road will have a more 
> intuitive syntax. I like the proposal.

Well as I mentioned, I'm fine with the idea per se, if implementors are 
willing to change their implementations and fix any resulting bugs, then 
the spec will follow.

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