[whatwg] Questions regarding Path object

[Rik Cabanier]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Jürg Lehni <lists at scratchdisk.com> wrote:

> I somehow managed to oversee all the things that happened in this
> discussion, but I'm very happy to see that Path2D is being proposed and
> agreed on now. It's also what I've originally suggested on April 10 this
> year, and I completely agree that it leaves much less doubt about its
> functionality and context of use. It also has a history as a term in Java2D:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/geom/Path2D.html
>
> So is this going through?
>

Yes, all that need to happen is for someone to implement this :-)


>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 19:03 , Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, November 18, 2013, Rik Cabanier wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Robert O'Callahan <
> robert at ocallahan.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'robert at ocallahan.org');>
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
> >>> jussi.kalliokoski at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> >>> 'jussi.kalliokoski at gmail.com');>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Path is also too generic even in the context of graphics. If we later
> on
> >>>> want to add a path object for 3-dimensional paths, you end up with
> Path
> >>>> and
> >>>> Path3D? Yay for consistency. Path2D would immediately inform what
> >>>> dimensions we're dealing with and also that this is to do with
> graphics,
> >>>> and thus sounds like a good name to me.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Sounds good to me.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Elliot,
> >>
> >> what do you think, is Path2D acceptable?
> >>
> >
> > Sounds great to me, lets do it!
> >
> > - E
>
>