[whatwg] Proposal: HTMLCanvasElement.printCallback API

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 3) If we're advocating that developers "put a canvas on every page that
> covers the whole page" as the standard way to handle large document
> printing why not have a handler that gets given a canvas for every page
> automatically instead of requiring the developer to insert it themselves.
>

Another use-case is when you have a document that's regular HTML and just
happens to contain one or more <canvas> images that should be beautiful
when printed.

4) SVG is for vector graphics, not canvas. Why can't I replace an entire
> page with an <svg> instead of drawing to a canvas? :)
>

SVG doesn't fit some use-cases very well, for example, when you generate
graphics from some underlying (large) data model.

Rob
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