- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:50:13 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Philip Taylor wrote: > > I think the relevant issue is that the various low-level rendering > libraries (and the different versions of those libraries, and the > different backends within each version) are sufficiently interoperable > for SVG but not for canvas, and it is significantly easier for > implementors if we fix that by changing canvas to only use the > interoperable subset of those libraries (by forcing the smaller circle > to be contained within the larger circle, which just requires a few > extra calculations in the canvas API implementation), rather than > requiring changes inside those libraries. I guess my preference at this point is to wait and see, rather than changing it again. If it turns out to be a problem that doesn't solve itself, we can simplify it as you suggest. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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