[whatwg] CSS canvas() function

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr at me.com> wrote:

> 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>.
>

Actually <video> can't, although I think it should.

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?).
>

That gets tricky fast, as Boris explained.

I think we could spec the following cases:
1) <img> containing a fully loaded image; size is the intrinsic size of the
image
2) <video> when it's displaying a video or fully loaded poster image; size
is the intrinsic size of the video or poster image
3) <canvas>; size is the size of the canvas buffer

We could add <object> and <embed> to the list, for the cases where they
contain a plugin or a fully loaded image, except I don't know what size
you'd use. Maybe resolve style, use the resolved width and height if they're
both lengths, otherwise rendering nothing? I'm not terribly motivated to add
new features for plugins though.

I think after the behaviour of not-in-document IFRAMEs is properly specced
out (e.g. defining the viewport size), we could add them here too.

Rob
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