- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:58:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-archive@w3.org
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Alex Danilo wrote: > > Later the WHATWG shamelessly ripped off all this work > to put it into Canvas so some fruit company could implement > fancy graphics for their music application and the reasoning was > lost since no attribution of the SVG Working Groups work ever > happened - after all imitation is the sincerest form of flattery:-) Not that it matters, but you have your history wrong. Apple invented <canvas> independently, basing it directly on their platform's native graphics API, and intending it only for Mac OS X's then-new Dashboard. The WHATWG spec was written by reverse engineering the Safari <canvas>. The SVG spec wasn't involved at any point in this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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