- From: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:22:38 -0500
- To: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
People have expressed varying degrees of interest in working with a Canvas object/2D immediate mode graphics API working group. What's been stated is that at the time a vote to retain Canvas was taken, no one was willing to step up to be editor of the first draft, or willing to take the time to be in this group. That was the main reason at the time to keep Canvas, the object, the API, in the HTML 5 spec. This could be partially true. I'm willing to step up to be editor, at least pro tem, for the first draft. I would also be willing to submit alternative text for the HTML 5 specification to handle this transition. Toby[1] already has, except for the issue of whether the change could be informative or normative, because of the use of ImageData with PostMessage. I could not necessarily guarantee I could continue this effort, because I can't guarantee my financial state more than a month or two in the future. I wouldn't want to be Chair, and I'd prefer that the role of editor be filled by at least 2 or more people, selected by the group. I plan on asking this same question elsewhere. If it is true, and people aren't willing to step up to be part of this new working group, then I'll drop any further discussion of splitting the 2D API out of the HTML 5 specification, now and in the future. If there is sufficient interest, though, then I think that circumstance, and new information is such that this option could be re-opened, and a new effort undertaken. This isn't a formal poll, or vote. Just trying to answer the question that seems to underly some of the current discussion: are people interested enough to actively participate. Shelley [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0651.html
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