- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:59:13 +0000
Jayant Sai wrote: > > The introduction of the <canvas> is a GREAT start for higher quality > graphics on the clientside. But whats missing is support for text > rendering. Text is as important an element of graphics as the drawn shapes. Allowing text in <canvas> has serious accessibility problems. Presumably such text would not be resizable and encouraging authors to use non-resizable text in their web-apps is not a good idea. I guess there would also be (separate) issues with fonts; one assumes font substitution on a bitmap drawing would be more problematic than font substitution where the text is the main content. > Also, adding text support will bring <canvas> to par with MSIE's VML. Isn't VML substantially closer to SVG (which supports text)? -- "It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise." -- http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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