[whatwg] Canvas lack of drawString method

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

There's also these ones...

http://www.donfrehulfer.com/texttest.html
http://caimansys.com/projects/canvas/digiclock.html
http://andrewwooldridge.com/canvas/canvasfonts/testfonts.html

On a separate note... I've been thinking that it would be useful to have a
program that could take a TTF font file and transform it into some
JavaScript that would draw the "strings" with the Bezier curve procedures
that <canvas> already has.


See ya

On 10/24/06, Alfonso Baqueiro <abaqueiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is the kind of hacks a drawString method can prevent.
>
> 2006/10/24, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au>:
> > Alfonso Baqueiro wrote:
> > > The canvas component is very promising, but the lack of drawString
> method
> > > could be a great error for its success, this lack is a huge
> limitation, how
> > > could you resolve this problem?
> >
> > Just for a bit of fun, I created a demo to show how it is already
> > possible to render text on canvas.  This technique has certainly got
> > many limitations and could never be made as good as a native
> > implementation, but it works Firefox, Opera and Safari.
> >
> > http://lachy.id.au/dev/2006/10/canvas-text
> >
> > --
> > Lachlan Hunt
> > http://lachy.id.au/
> >
>



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