On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> On 2/5/15, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > According to http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/tktview?name=eaf1c4fdbe, > the > > code to enable this feature is in place and just need to be activated. > This > > is from nearly 4 years ago. Can this be done easily? > > > > OK. The next issue is how to draw the cherry-pick merges. > > Canvas drawing options are limited. We cannot use the HTML <canvas> > element because the geniuses that designed it limited its size to > merely 32K pixels, which is nowhere near large enough for a long > timeline. So currently, all drawing is done with long and thin <div> > elements. Thousands and thousands of them on a longer timeline. This > limits the drawing to solid lines with a "Manhattan Geometry". Thin > gray lines, perhaps? > > (Aside: Back years ago when first implemented, drawing thousands of > long and thin <div> elements also turned out to be much faster than > using <canvas>. Sigh.) > > Does anybody have a mockup of what they think cherrypick merges should > look like? > Dashed line? http://jsfiddle.net/by86pngw/ What about using SVG graphics? They are easy enough to generate by code (just xml) and are supported natively in modern browsers. -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı
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