[whatwg] canvas elements <rect> <polygon> etc

Elliotte Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Mon Mar 12 17:12:41 PDT 2007


Edward O'Connor wrote:

> Please excuse the analogy, but try thinking about it this way: canvas is
> to Photoshop as SVG is to Illustrator.


No, not really. canvas is to Illustrator as JPEG is to Photoshop.   SVG 
is also to Illustrator as JPEG is to Photoshop.

It's more like canvas is to JavaScript as SVG is to XML.

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