On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Chris Warburton <chriswa...@googlemail.com > wrote:
> In the case of an OS, providing a dumb box to draw on is much easier > than a complete, complementary suite of MVC/Morphic/etc. components, > even though developers are forced to implement their own incompatible > integration layers, if they bother at all. > > This is why I'm not a fan of HTML5 canvas, since it's a dumb box which > strips away the precious-little semantics the Web has, and restrict > mashups to little more than putting existing boxes next to each other. > There is "worse is better", but there also is "less is more". From a limited perspective, it may be difficult to tell the difference. We should be careful to not mistake these. In this case, the other POV is that the canvas is a humble box that doesn't arrogantly presume it knows better than its users how to format a display. :)
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