Re: [whatwg] Canvas Path.addPath SVGMatrix not optimal? from Joe Gregorio on 2014-03-21 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Joe Gregorio <jcgregorio@google.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:01:13 -0400
To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <CAA6qSUALYHiqL-qeYAUXMciWTpe06GjxYcwbpKmfxW5t-2-vLg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just looked at the definition of Path.addPath[1]:
>
>     void addPath(Path path, SVGMatrix? transformation);
>
> SVGMatrix is nullable but can not be omitted all together. Why isn’t it
> optional as well? I think it should be optional, especially because
> creating an SVGMatrix at the moment means writing:
>
>     var matrix = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
> ','svg').createSVGMatrix();
>

Agreed, that's painful, +1 for making it optional.

  -joe


>
> Greetings,
> Dirk
>
> [1]
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#path

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