- From: Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@w3future.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:14:57 +0200
OK, I'll shut up about non scripting languages, I don't know anything about them. Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > Hello, > > On 6/15/05, Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd at w3future.com> wrote: > >>Christian Biesinger wrote: >> >>>Sjoerd Visscher wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Christian Biesinger wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Sjoerd Visscher wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>This isn't needed. Just like in normal HTML a drawing transaction is >>>>>>automatically started when the javascript code starts >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Are the <canvas> functions JavaScript-specific? >>>> >>>> >>>>Ehm, no. Actually the automatic drawing transactions story applies to >>>>all scripting languages in HTML. >>> >>> >>>There might be non-scripting languages that want to use <canvas>. >>>Consider an extensible UA that might support writing extensions in Java >>>or C++. You can probably not extend such automatic transactions to those >>>languages... >> >>Yes you can. A transaction takes the duration of the thread. > > > So then what do you do if your code is not amenable to the "event" > drive way of programming. > > What if you have an "event loop" approach. How then do you signify > the "ending" so that things can actually happen? > > > See ya > -- Sjoerd Visscher http://w3future.com/weblog/
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