- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:30:30 +0100
- To: "Charles Pritchard" <chuck@jumis.com>
- Cc: "Steve Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Paul Bakaus" <pbakaus@zynga.com>, "public-canvas-api@w3.org" <public-canvas-api@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:26:22 +0100, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote: > In the spirit of good discussion I'm going to ask that people refrain > from describing the development of text entry tools in Canvas as > "foolish". It's been publicly framed as such by several developers > including the HTML5 editor. It's widely known that I've created several > text editing implementations, as have some of my peers. I find these > remarks disparaging and without technical merit. Fair enough. I apologise for any assertion that the developer who chooses to make a text editor in canvas is a fool (indeed, it is something I suspect is beyond rather than beneath my own intellectual capability). > iOS Mobile Safari does not implement contentEditable yet Canvas RTE > works on the platform. Authors have been creating text widgets since > GUIs first allowed them to. There's nothing taboo in the desktop realm > about text editing. > > All vendors found a big leap up in using their own (or new) > rasterization techniques. Software code is not magical, there is no > reason that custom UI components ought to be treated as taboo. I think that is a fair statement. If I were to enter again in the discussion I would clarify that I mean it is an unfortunate state of affairs when such an approach is in fact the optimal solution to the problem of rich text editing, and I accept that nevertheless that is a state of affairs that has prevailed, through no fault of the developers like yourself who are trying to solve real problems for real people. > [...] > I've done my part in good faith. Indeed. > I'm requesting that vendors show more respect to the process of Canvas > UI development these discussions. And a fair request it is. Sorry for any hurt that I have caused - I didn't mean to disparage your work and decisions abut how to do it in any way. cheers Chaals -- Charles 'chaals' McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg kan litt norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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