[whatwg] dashed lines in Canvas
Stefan Gössner
stefan at goessner.net
Wed Oct 3 02:56:16 PDT 2007
One possible use case of canvas are technical drawings. For even
extremely simple drawings - think of a circle with centerlines and a
diameter dimension - dash-dotted lines are needed as well as dimension text.
I would like to see both (dashed lines and text) in future canvas versions.
--
Stefan Goessner
Garrett Smith wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>> On 5/19/07, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Consider doing any diagramming. It's a necessary feature.
>> Not really. For straight lines it's pretty trivial to do today anyway
>> (either by drawing actual dashed lines or faking it with a pattern),
>> and in general you can use other styles of lines instead of actual
>> dashes. Now of course I'm not saying that this is always a good
>> alternative, but it's not a blocker.
>>
>
>
>> If someone actually does this, then we might have to reconsider.
>
> http://ditchnet.org/canvasuml/
>
> Someone actually did.
>
> I haven't tried using <canvas> for UML for publishing.
>
> If I want to make a diagram published, I'd use the above strategies.
>
> Trying to make UML Diagrams in the browser, current options are:
> 1) ASCII
> 2) Image
> 3) HTML + CSS + Images
>
> A UML widget for a bugzilla plugin could be useful, so long as it was
> simple and quicker to use than making ascii lines.
>
> Garrett
>
>> --
>> Ian Hickson
>>
>
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