[whatwg] Adding 2D Canvas features (Was: Grouping in canvas 2d)

[Justin Novosad]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Tom Wiltzius <wiltzius at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Mark Callow <callow.mark at artspark.co.jp
> >wrote:
>
> >  I thought some pretty strong objections were raised to text decoration.
> > Why are you actively developing it?
> >
>
> There were some concerns cited, as well as some unresolved debate about the
> exact shape of the API, but my read is that the objections aren't
> sufficiently fundamental to block prototyping (such that we might gain some
> implementation experience to inform the API's development).
>
>
The strong objections were more general opposition to the use of text in 2D
canvas because of its various shortcomings (accessibility, crawling, etc)
IMHO, that is a completely different debate than the question of whether or
not the canvas text should have more bells and whistles.