[whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-18 Thread Jordan OSETE
Simon Pieters wrote : On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:37:16 +0200, Jordan OSETE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: is it OK to post suggestions on the message board (at http://forums.whatwg.org/) instead of the mailing lists? Yes. Or maybe less people would read it? Discussions in the forums can

[whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-16 Thread Jordan OSETE
Maciej Stachowiak wrote : One reason the API works this way is that in the CoreGraphics drawing API on the Mac, there's no way to add anything to the clip region directly, so it would be necessary to track all the context state manually and union paths to support these operations. The

Re: [whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-16 Thread Stefan Haustein
Jordan OSETE wrote: Yes, but there are complex shapes that can be made really easier to draw this way. On the other hand, the way the current specification works allows to construct a single shape once, and draw it in different ways around, by just modifying the transform attribute... It

Re: [whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-16 Thread Philip Taylor
On 15/04/07, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Jordan OSETE wrote: Color / style: -- Reading colors can be complex. Right now it returns a string either in the form #xx or rgba(...), depending on the alpha value. It means the reader

[whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-15 Thread Jordan OSETE
Hello folks at the WHATWG. Some simple suggestions about the great canvas tag: Clipping-paths: --- Right now if i understand it correctly, the clip() function creates a new clipping path, being the intersection of the last clipping path. I have not seen any way to actually come

Re: [whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-15 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Jordan OSETE wrote: Hello folks at the WHATWG. Some simple suggestions about the great canvas tag: Clipping-paths: --- Right now if i understand it correctly, the clip() function creates a new clipping path, being the intersection of the last

Re: [whatwg] Canvas suggestions

2007-04-15 Thread Stefan Haustein
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: You can achieve relative moves by doing a translation to the current point when drawing; this is a more general version of what your pathBase property would do. Hi, the WHATWG spec says you cannot do so (section 3.14.11.1.8): Note: The transformation is applied to