- From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:05:52 -0700
- To: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
I think that by 'clipping region', the spec means the 'region that is not clipped'. You can clip anything (including text) in canvas. ie http://jsfiddle.net/6eGxU/23/ On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>wrote: > The canvas specification maintains: > > These shapes are painted without affecting the current path, and are > subject to shadow effects, global alpha, the clipping region, and global > composition operators. [0] > > But no browsers I tested actually implement the "clipping region" part. > Should this be removed for backwards compatibility reasons? Should we > introduce a new method of clipping text be introduced, or should we just > require users who want to draw clipped text to draw to a scratch canvas and > use drawImage to copy the pixels? > [0] > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#drawing-text-to-the-bitmap > > -- > Jasper >
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