- From: Shaofei Cheng <csf178@163.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:27:00 +0800 (CST)
- To: public-canvas-api@w3.org
- Message-ID: <5b22465e.4239.1339cae2bc4.Coremail.csf178@163.com>
Hey guys,
These days I'm working on a simple wrapping of canvas and just noticed that canvas leaks of elliptical canvas.arc APIs for path.
What I want to implement is like the following:
var canvas = new CanvasWraper(myCanvas);
canvas.drawPath("M200,300 Q400,50 600,300 T1000,300");
The main purpose is to draw a path in canvas in SVG grammar. Everything goes well except the "A" command. Canvas 2d context do not have a API for arc of ellipse. So in the following picture(which is a sample of SVG). The left graph could be draw with canvas but the right could not.
This path grammar is also supported by silverlight.
So I suggest to add a elliptical arc API for path. With that we can keep the feature align with SVG.Also I think elliptical arc could be useful for some graphics games.
(We are able to approx elliptical arc with cubic bezer, but I think the algorithm is too complex for web developers )
Thanks,
Shaofei Cheng
Received on Sunday, 13 November 2011 20:35:53 UTC