[whatwg] Text APIs on <canvas>

[Mathieu HENRI]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> I have introduced the following APIs:
> 
>    context.font
>    context.textAlign
>    context.textBaseline
>    context.fillText()
>    context.strokeText()
>    context.measureText()
> 
> They are defined here:
> 
>    http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text
> 
> I haven't provided a way to render text to or along a path, nor a way to 
> do vertical text, nor a way to measure anything but the nominal layout 
> width of text (e.g. there's no way to measure bounding boxes or get 
> baseline metrics). I also haven't provided a way to render document 
> fragments straight to a canvas.
> 
> 
> Here is some of the feedback on canvas related to text. I have snipped the 
> feedback that wasn't constructive or didn't provide anything beyond 
> requests for features without use cases and rationale, or that just 
> bickered back and forth without making progress. If I snipped something 
> that you think I should have responded to, please let me know. (I did take 
> everything into account, even the bits that I haven't included below.)
> 
> I haven't made many comments below, because I didn't really have much to 
> say. There were a lot of proposals and requests, but at the end of the day 
> there didn't seem to be strong arguments in favour of some things or other 
> things, so I haven't tried to defend the proposed API I put in the spec 
> relative to the other APIs that were proposed. (I did take the various 
> proposals that were made into account, and tried to adopt the best parts 
> of each one.)
> 
> If you have further feedback, please send comments to the list, as usual.

I can't see any mention that support for Text is optional. Is it 
reasonable with browsers approaching major releases ?


The TextMetrics MUST return have 2 Float readonly properties : the width 
and height. The width alone is not enough.

The methods fillText() and strokeText() could have a 5th optional 
boolean argument called wrapText ( false by default ) to specify if the 
text should wrap or the font-size be decrease in case the text is wider 
than maxWidth.

It is unclear whether the transformations affect the text.





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Mathieu 'p01' HENRI
JavaScript developer, Opera Software ASA