I think that by 'clipping region', the spec means the 'region that is not clipped'.
You can clip anything (including text) in canvas. ie http://jsfiddle.net/6eGxU/23/ On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <[email protected]>wrote: > 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-element.html#drawing-text-to-the-bitmap > > -- > Jasper >
