- From: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:00:05 -0800
SVG taints the canvas in every browser I've tried which precludes many uses of canvas that require toDataURL() to work. I don't think SVG is a reasonable solution to the lacking features in the canvas API. Having to decide between bit level access and dotted lines is not reasonable. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote: > There have been quite a few threads and requests for extensions to the > Canvas 2d API. > > I've been working on some extensions to help Canvas authors meet WCAG2 > conformance, over at public-canvas-api. > > I want to point out to all of you, that many of the features you'd like to > see in Canvas can be accomplished via drawImage and SVG. > SVG support in the image element is working in many browsers. > > There are many methods available in SVG that are not available in Canvas. > Use SVG images as a means to enable them in your Canvas interface. > It's not a perfect solution, but for some things, like dotted lines, it > can work out. > >
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