- From: Peter Hall <peterjoel@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 16:12:17 +0100
On 5/17/06, David Flanagan <david at davidflanagan.com> wrote: > > What surprises me about the omission of dashed lines is that every > graphics API I'm familiar with (Xlib, PostScript, Java 2D) supports > dashed lines. Unless there is some important platform out there that > does not support them in the underlying graphics library, it seems to me > that it would have been trivial to add dashed lines to the API. Flash is an example of a platform that does not support dashed lines in its drawing API. Dashed lines created in the Flash Authoring tool are actually exported into a swf as a series of short curves. However, this is a huge limitation, when it comes to drawing lines dynamically, so I don't think one platform's omission of the feature is a good argument anyway. It is a reasonable and worthwhile goal to natively support emulation of all style attributes that are specifiable in CSS. Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20060520/eb96003a/attachment.htm>
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