kaa.canvas is quickly taking shape, and currently should be able to do everything that mevas does (with a couple exceptions that will be fixed in time), as well as a whole lot more. There are a couple warts in kaa.canvas, but overall I feel happy about the design.
I was originally going to type a big long email update, but I figured the best use of that time would be spent writing some manner of documentation. So I've done that, and you can see my working copy here: http://sault.org/mebox/canvas/ I will move this into svn soon. My next task will be to do up some simple demos (although a little more complicated than the ones on that page). There's still a fair amount of work to be done, though. I'm sure there will be plenty of bugs to be fixed. I don't know of any big ones, but the layout code is non-trivial and there's bound to be some hiccups. On the TODO list is a "transition engine," so you can specify transition effects such as scaling, fading, sliding, etc. Also, dischi has requested some kind of support for animation like MNG or possibly APNG. This is possible, but just needs doing. Alternatively, if parsing MNG is complicated, a simple, custom approach could be devised, like a tarball of png files that specify frames in the animated sequence. Also TODO is performance work. The layout code is not very well optimized yet (although for most common things this won't be a problem). Lastly, and possibly most importantly, I need to go through the code and comment all those methods. The code is rather scarce of comments. :) Review the docs at the URL above and let's hear your comments. If you have ideas and requirements speak up sooner rather than later. :) Cheers, Jason.
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