[whatwg] CSS canvas() function

Tue Nov 23 17:35:54 PST 2010

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>wrote:

> For example, I've recently been playing with fractals in canvas, and
> temporarily set my blog to have a screen-filling canvas z-index'd
> below the content, filled with an interactive fractal (the mandelbrot
> set, overlaid with the julia set for the point your mouse was over).
> It would be better/cleaner/easier/more semantic to just draw directly
> into the <body> background, which is what I was faking with abspos and
> z-index.
>

OK.

How about just using canvas() to refer to setImageElement() things?
>
This retains the flexibility that setImageElement has over
> getCSSCanvasContext, while removing the weirdness of transparently
> overriding #ids and keeping element() open to accept arbitrary
> selectors?
>

Special syntax to refer to setImageElement elements would be OK, but I
wouldn't choose "canvas()", since the element can also be a <video> or
<img>.

How about element(<ident>) to refer to setImageElements, element(#id) for
DOM IDs, and element(first(<selector>)) for selectors? (I don't necessarily
endorse the idea of extending to selectors, FWIW, but I appreciate the
desire to keep the possibility open.)

Rob
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