- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:48:54 -0700
- To: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Cc: Justin Novosad <junov@google.com>, WHAT Working Group <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:37 PM, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote: > You know, I'm not quite sure why we have text in canvas at all. It's not > really text you know -- it's just a bunch of pixels. You can't select it, > you can't copy it to the clipboard, it's not accessible without a bunch of > effort that authors generally don't use. It's generally illegal in most > civilized places. Why not use SVG? It's got text decoration. Text is text. > It's just that the more conspiratorial and selfish of the browser vendors > back when things were being voted on seemed to push canvas since they > already owned it and SVG seemed "hard" and like they might have to learn > something by way of graphics in their corporate portfolios. > > That's how I see it, anyhow. WHATWG doesn't vote, of course. "text ... is generally illegal in most civilized places" What is this i don't even ~TJ
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