Re: Clarification on non-interactive, static, visual media

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:16:27 +0200, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com>  
wrote:

> I would like to get clarification on the following passage [1]:
>
> "In non-interactive, static, visual media, if the canvas element has  
> been previously painted on (e.g. if the page was viewed in an  
> interactive visual medium and is now being printed, or if some script  
> that ran during the page layout process painted on the element), then  
> the canvas element represents embedded content with the current image  
> and size. Otherwise, the element represents its fallback content  
> instead."

This seems like a stupid requirement. Why would we want to print the  
fallback? In many cases the fallback will be "your browser does not  
support canvas".


> I interpret this to mean, in a non-interactive, static, visual media,  
> where the canvas element has not been previously painted on, you will  
> see the fallback content. An example of this scenario would be printing  
> a webpage where nothing has been drawn on the canvas. What are the other  
> scenarios?
>
> I have tried printing a webpage containing the following code, but I did  
> not see the fallback content on Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Firefox  
> browsers.
>
> 0 <html>
> 1 <head>
> 2 </head>
>
> 3 <body>
> 4 <canvas>This is the fallback</canvas>
>
> 5 </body>
> 6 </html>
>
> Thanks,
> Jatinder
>
> [1]  
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-canvas-element.html#the-canvas-element
>
> Jatinder Mann | Internet Explorer Program Manager
>


-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 05:46:32 UTC