Re: Comments on SVG Compositing

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Alex Danilo wrote:
> 
> 	Later the WHATWG shamelessly ripped off all this work
> to put it into Canvas so some fruit company could implement
> fancy graphics for their music application and the reasoning was
> lost since no attribution of the SVG Working Groups work ever
> happened - after all imitation is the sincerest form of flattery:-)

Not that it matters, but you have your history wrong. Apple invented 
<canvas> independently, basing it directly on their platform's native 
graphics API, and intending it only for Mac OS X's then-new Dashboard. 
The WHATWG spec was written by reverse engineering the Safari <canvas>. 
The SVG spec wasn't involved at any point in this.

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Received on Thursday, 14 April 2011 04:59:10 UTC