[whatwg] [Canvas][WebIDL] Canvas .addText takes NoInterfaceObject argument

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Dirk Schulze wrote:
> 
> The methods addText() and addPathByStrokingText() [1] take the 
> NoInterfaceObject CanvasDrawingStyle [2] as argument. I wonder if that 
> is even possible for WebIDL since there is no way to create it and no 
> binding to ECMAScript is exposed. Shouldn't it rather be a DrawingStyle 
> object[3], which indeed is an interface? I didn't scan if that is the 
> case in other places as well. The definition of NoInterfaceObject is 
> here [4].

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> [NoInterfaceObject] just means that window.CanvasDrawingStyle is 
> undefined, basically.  It doesn't affect anything else.
> 
> addText, as an example, takes any object that implements the 
> CanvasDrawingStyle interface.  That would include any DrawingStyle 
> object and any CanvasRenderingContext2D object, at first glance.

Boris is correct.

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