Re: HTML Canvas 2D Context progress is stalled; time to drop features? (resending)

I will follow up with browser vendors with regards to any defects on
drawFocusIfNeeded()

Mark

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> all the tests for drawFocusIfNeeded are done.
>
> addHitRegion is the implementations have too long to go whereas
> drawFocusIfNeeded has some minor bugs that need to be fixed in the
> browsers.
>
> Mark has agreed to finish these getting those bugs fixed with the browser
> manufacturers.
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
> [image: Inactive hide details for Sam Ruby ---01/28/2015 02:36:15
> PM---Background: HTML Canvas 2D Context is in Candidate Recommendatio]Sam
> Ruby ---01/28/2015 02:36:15 PM---Background: HTML Canvas 2D Context is in
> Candidate Recommendation:    http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext
>
> From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
> To: "public-canvas-api@w3.org" <public-canvas-api@w3.org>
> Date: 01/28/2015 02:36 PM
> Subject: HTML Canvas 2D Context progress is stalled; time to drop
> features?
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Background: HTML Canvas 2D Context is in Candidate Recommendation:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/
>
> The plan, as of September 2014, was to have "All tests will be written
> and run by the end of the month":
>
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-canvas-api/2014JulSep/0033.html
>
> The status, as of January 2015, is that a number of tests have yet to be
> written (search for TODO):
>
>    https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Canvas_Task_Force/CR-Test
>
> Additionally, many of the tests that are currently written are failing.
>
> After discussions with my co-chair (Paul Cotton) and the W3C domain lead
> (PLH), the time has come to recommend that features for which we don't
> have passing tests be deferred to HTML Canvas level 2.
>
> I encourage everybody who would like to propose an alternate plan do so
> now.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:17:29 UTC