- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:04:28 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Ennals, Robert" <robert.ennals@intel.com>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:56 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > >> Just one more word: "canvas". > > Considering the history of HTML and XHTML proprietary extensions, > I'd say > "canvas" was a success story. I suspect canvas would have gone more smoothly if the initial implementation had been something like <div -webkit-canvas> instead of <canvas> (with Gecko perhaps adding -moz-canvas and eventually converging on <canvas> as a standard). But it also likely would have gone more smoothly if we'd subjected our design to public review before shipping it in a GM release. It's hard for me to say at this point if both mechanisms would have been necessary. On the other hand, I think making it <webkit:canvas xmlns="http://webkit.org/ns/canvas "> would likely not have made things smoother on the whole and might have made things worse. Regards, Maciej
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