Re: Use Cases for The <canvas> Element

On 29/07/07, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
> Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> > Users want an increasingly dynamic and interactive experience on the
> > web.  Providing dynamic graphics is one way in which this can be
> > achieved.  So by providing examples where dynamic and interactive
> > graphics have been used in the past, demonstrates the need for canvas.
>
> No, it does not.  Following your own insistence that WG members
> focus on the /problem/ rather than on potential solutions,
> "examples where dynamic and interactive graphics have been used
> in the past" demonstrate the need for "dynamic and interactive
> graphics".  They do /not/ demonstrate a need for "canvas",
> which is (one of many possible) solutions.
>
> Philip Taylor

Good point.  I would have been more at ease if all the behaviour of
the canvas element were applied to the existing img element instead.
I never understood the rationale for a completely new element.

-- 
Lee