On 5/17/06, David Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Flash is an example of a platform that does not support dashed lines in its drawing API. Dashed lines created in the Flash Authoring tool are actually exported into a swf as a series of short curves.
However, this is a huge limitation, when it comes to drawing lines dynamically, so I don't think one platform's omission of the feature is a good argument anyway.
It is a reasonable and worthwhile goal to natively support emulation of all style attributes that are specifiable in CSS.
Peter
What surprises me about the omission of dashed lines is that every
graphics API I'm familiar with (Xlib, PostScript, Java 2D) supports
dashed lines. Unless there is some important platform out there that
does not support them in the underlying graphics library, it seems to me
that it would have been trivial to add dashed lines to the API.
Flash is an example of a platform that does not support dashed lines in its drawing API. Dashed lines created in the Flash Authoring tool are actually exported into a swf as a series of short curves.
However, this is a huge limitation, when it comes to drawing lines dynamically, so I don't think one platform's omission of the feature is a good argument anyway.
It is a reasonable and worthwhile goal to natively support emulation of all style attributes that are specifiable in CSS.
