[whatwg] CSS canvas() function

Simon Fraser smfr at me.com
Wed Dec 1 21:34:05 PST 2010


On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
> > In the absence of compelling use cases, I'd just leave it at <img>, <canvas>
> > and <video> and whitelist in more elements later if necessary.
> 
> <input type=image>?  <object>/<embed> seem to have roughly equivalent
> use-cases to <video> (though perhaps we just want to encourage
> <video>).
> 
> <object> can contain fallback content which might get tricky.

So can <video>.

It's a shame to disallow HTML elements with known width and height, e.g. if you want to render a small disconnected <div> subtree into a <canvas> or map it onto a WebGL texture. You'd have to decide how to resolve style (maybe assume it's a child of the body?).

Simon


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