Re: [whatwg] [2D Canvas] Do canvases in documents without a browsing context need to be rendered? from Boris Zbarsky on 2014-03-06 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:48:03 -0500
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <5317FE03.3010506@mit.edu>

On 3/5/14 11:42 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
> Since this is such a small edge case, it seems reasonable to disallow the
> creation of a 2d context and throw an exception. Going through all the APIs
> and flagging them as suitable for a context-less environment is not really
> worth the effort.

What happens if I create a 2d context while in a document and then adopt 
the <canvas> into a document that has no browsing context?

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 6 March 2014 04:48:30 UTC