[whatwg] CanvasRenderingContext2D with addPath, currentPath

[Rik Cabanier]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Jürg Lehni <lists at scratchdisk.com> wrote:

> > What's the use case?
> >
> > I intentionally didn't add this to the spec when I was adding the last
> set
> > of path-related features, because it seems entirely redundant with Path
> > objects. I thought we'd want people to move away from using the implicit
> > path, rather than making it more powerful.
>
> I like this feature a lot. One advantage to not underestimate is the
> amount of effort it takes to change existing code to make use off the new
> Path feature, while staying backward compatible with older browsers that
> don't implement this spec. For example, in Paper.js it took only three
> added lines of code to use cached paths if they exist rather than redrawing
> them each time
>

Do you think getCurrentPath should return a path in user space or in the
current transformation matrix?