- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:19:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 28 May 2005, Lenny Domnitser wrote: > > Creating a non-semantic <canvas> element as the only element that can be > drawn on is backwards. Instead, a scripting interface to drawing should > take any element as a context node. While I agree that this would be a more abstract design overall, it is unfortunately much more bug-prone. Implementations have historically had great problems with features that overload separate concepts on one element. The <object> element is one example of this; it has taken years to even approach interoperability, and even now it is not reliably usable across all browsers. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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