On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, carmen wrote:
suppose one is building a GUI with solely canvas elements.
i suppose i should have researched canvas - it looks like it doesn't
have elemnts one might be faimilar with the Tk canvas - you can only
draw using javascript. are there plans to support html
On 12/03/07, ddailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to believe that Canvas is useful, but being both naive and
stubborn, I don't yet see why.
In reading through the WHATWG draft, there are about N things that it seems
to be talking about. I see N-2 of those as redundant with the SVG
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:47:36 +0100, carmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thats kind of what i'm asking, it looks like SVG has its own API
already, sort of similar to canvas. are there plans to merge? can you
use svg elements inwide a canvas element or will the browser not find
them? are there
On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:34 PM, carmen wrote:
suppose one is building a GUI with solely canvas elements.
i suppose i should have researched canvas - it looks like it
doesn't have elemnts one might be faimilar with the Tk canvas - you
can only draw using javascript. are there plans to
Maciej wrote:
canvas is a programmatic immediate mode drawing surface. For
retained-mode structured graphics, SVG would be your solution. Both
things are useful.
I would like to believe that Canvas is useful, but being both naive and
stubborn, I don't yet see why.
In reading through the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Those who have worked with Canvas for the past several years have
probably written documents somewhere to explain just why the two specs
(SVG and Canvas) should not be merged. If someone could point me toward
that rationale, I will emerge enlightened and grateful
There is nothing to stop browser developers using the same underlying
implementation for canvas and svg rendering, so the overlap in
function becomes a plus point from a programming point of view.
Until either Canvas or SVG become completely available there will be
a place for both.
On Mon, March 12, 2007 3:34 pm, ddailey wrote:
Those who have worked with Canvas for the past several years have probably
written documents somewhere to explain just why the two specs (SVG and
Canvas) should not be merged. If someone could point me toward that
rationale, I will emerge
From: Gareth Hay wrote
There is nothing to stop browser developers using the same underlying
implementation for canvas and svg rendering, so the overlap in function
becomes a plus point from a programming point of view.
Good point. I guess the difficulty is not really in parsing the markup,
Edward O'Connor wrote:
Please excuse the analogy, but try thinking about it this way: canvas is
to Photoshop as SVG is to Illustrator.
I think it's a bit more elusive than that. SVG allows bitmaps to be
imported, and subsequently filtered (blurs, displacements, channel
separations, layers,
Edward O'Connor wrote:
Please excuse the analogy, but try thinking about it this way: canvas is
to Photoshop as SVG is to Illustrator.
No, not really. canvas is to Illustrator as JPEG is to Photoshop. SVG
is also to Illustrator as JPEG is to Photoshop.
It's more like canvas is to
suppose one is building a GUI with solely canvas elements.
i suppose i should have researched canvas - it looks like it doesn't have
elemnts one might be faimilar with the Tk canvas - you can only draw using
javascript. are there plans to support html style creation of elements within
the
carmen wrote:
are there plans to support html style creation of elements within the
canvas tag?
How would that be different from Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)???
On Sun Mar 11, 2007 at 05:06:06PM -0400, Matthew Raymond wrote:
carmen wrote:
are there plans to support html style creation of elements within the
canvas tag?
How would that be different from Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)???
thats kind of what i'm asking, it looks like SVG has its
.
I know... nobody cares about a million votes any more.
ddailey
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