- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:40:14 -0400
- To: public-canvas-api@w3.org
Hi, Jun- FUJISAWA Jun wrote (on 8/18/09 5:17 AM): > >> I took the opportunity to make it a little more generic (i.e., not >> HTML-specific), so that SVG could also include the Canvas API (for >> example, to be used on<image> elements in SVG); > > As for the use of in SVG, I think the Canvas API would be useful for any > elements that establish a new viewport, including 'svg', 'image', 'video', > 'animation', and 'foreignObject' elements. > > There is no element that provide graphics rendering context in HTML, so > we need to introduce 'canvas' element. In the case of SVG, however, we > already have a good set of graphics elements with independent rendering > contexts, and we should take full advantage of the available rich > features of SVG. To be honest, I hadn't considered anything but <image>, but we can certainly take a look at other elements. I definitely see some interesting use cases for using it with <video>, in fact. Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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