David Barbour <dmbarb...@gmail.com> writes: > 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. :)
My dislike of canvas is that it arrogantly presumes that a user agent has a display to be formatted. I used to develop a CMS called ocPortal which got lots of praise from its blind users. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
