Last I checked applying a clipPath to text in SVG works consistently across browsers, and there it remains accessible: to screen readers, indexing, searching, drag-to-select, etc. Why would one want a bunch of pixels that resemble text?
Just saying, David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jasper St. Pierre Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [whatwg] Clipping text in in canvas The canvas specification maintains: These shapes are painted without affecting the current path, and are subject to shadow effects, global alpha, the clipping region, and global composition operators. [0] But no browsers I tested actually implement the "clipping region" part. Should this be removed for backwards compatibility reasons? Should we introduce a new method of clipping text be introduced, or should we just require users who want to draw clipped text to draw to a scratch canvas and use drawImage to copy the pixels? [0] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-eleme nt.html#drawing-text-to-the-bitmap -- Jasper
