- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:35:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, John S. Urban wrote: > > Concerning the polygon fill rules .. it would be nice if the fill rules > allowed for image maps and canvas elements were symetrical. It is > surprising to have "evenodd" the only available one available for image > map polygons; and "winding" the only one for <CANVAS>. That is, since a > browser has to support both methods, it seems each element that supports > polygon fill should have the same set of methods available. So just as > "evenodd" is needed in <CANVAS>, "winding" should be added for IMAGE > MAPS. I doubt we would add features to the image maps at this point for completeness alone; they're not used much for new sites. I agree that the inconsistency is odd, but, well, HTML is full of weirdness like that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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