Re: You Got Your SVG in my Canvas! Mmm, Delicious!

Hi, Ted-

Edward O'Connor wrote (on 7/1/11 1:52 PM):
>
> Doug wrote:
>
>>  I suggest that rather than adding more retained-mode shape features to
>>  the Canvas API or shadow tree, that we simply allow the SVG and Canvas
>>  to be used more seamlessly together[…] I wrote up some more detailed
>>  notes on my blog, and I'm interested in hearing feedback[…]
>
> While painting, the render tree needs to be immutable. There are some
> unfortunate legacy cases where this doesn't hold (plugins, mainly), but
> we'd be really reluctant to allow new cases in which the render tree can
> change out from under us while painting. Which means that scribbling on
> an SVG element with the 2d context API while painting is a non-starter.

Sorry, I'm not following you.  Can you please explain in more detail?  I 
want to make sure we aren't talking past one another.

Thanks-
-Doug

Received on Monday, 4 July 2011 04:40:54 UTC