Good news! Robert O'Callahan informed me that the toDataUrl feature is now working in the latest Firefox builds. Here's the IDL (interface description...
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Andrew
triptych999
Mar 7, 2006 5:10 am
Here's an interesting article about the WHATWG and the future of the web. It talks about canvas, svg, etc. ...
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Rafael de Oliveira Ja...
rafael_jannone
Mar 10, 2006 9:03 pm
Hi all, Which way is the best way of rendering lots os rectangles of different colors onto a canvas? I'm trying to emulate an old computer, so each rectangle...
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Vladimir Vukicevic
vvukicevic
Mar 10, 2006 10:22 pm
... Nothing in the near future, I'm afraid; this is a similar bug to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297959 . Much of the overhead is actually...
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Rafael Jannone
rafael_jannone
Mar 10, 2006 11:07 pm
Hi, Vladimir ... Thanks for the prompt answer. Very interesting link, but I'm sad to see that the discussion on the bug report stopped on October 2005. So as...
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Vladimir Vukicevic
vvukicevic
Mar 10, 2006 11:38 pm
... Well, discussion stopped, but it's been a useful test case that a bunch of folks are still working from. We're just not putting in anything into the bug...
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Rafael Jannone
rafael_jannone
Mar 11, 2006 3:08 am
Vlad, ... You obviously know what you're talking about, so pardon my ignorance on the subject. As I understand, the canvas implementation uses Cairo as the...
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Andrew
triptych999
Mar 20, 2006 12:32 am
http://persistent.info/archives/2006/02/26/canvas-text It also has some nice metrics on rendering time performance....
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GD
gagancseiitk
Mar 20, 2006 3:12 pm
In my program I call setInterval('draw()',100); somewhere. How can I stop FFox from calling draw() after let's say 100 iterations or equivalently 10 seconds? ...
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Dave Hoover
redsquirreld...
Mar 20, 2006 3:20 pm
... clearInterval('draw()')...
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GD
gagancseiitk
Mar 21, 2006 3:18 pm
I need to write some text on the canvas for labeling some things. How to go about doing it? Kindly cc the reply to gagands@... Thanks, Gagan...
... No, it's: myinterval = setInterval('draw()',100); clearInterval(myinterval); ie in your specific case you'd do: setTimeout('clearInterval(myinterval)',...
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Dave Hoover
redsquirreld...
Mar 22, 2006 3:05 pm
... Oops, you're right. I got that wrong. Thanks for correcting me. If you'd like to see it used in the wild, you can view source on http://awordlike.com/...
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Andrew
triptych999
Mar 22, 2006 7:49 pm
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a1.html I encourage everyone who has canvas implementations to test them out on this alpha release. I've...
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Dave Hoover
redsquirreld...
Mar 22, 2006 8:29 pm
... Everything looks good at http://awordlike.com/. No noticable differences in performance or functionality, it seems to animate slightly better on the alpha...
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canvasgame
Mar 26, 2006 4:19 am
I have made canvascape compatible with Internet Explorer: http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/ I used a vml canvas workaround produced by Google...
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Dave Hoover
redsquirreld...
Mar 26, 2006 6:47 am
I've got it working with my stupid little Ajax Trains demo... http://www.redsquirrel.com/dave/play/ajaxtrains.html If you have the go ahead to publish an...
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canvasgame
Mar 26, 2006 10:34 am
... Yeah I would say so, but make it obvious that it is unreleased and a final version will be announced soon at code.google.com ....
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Rafael Robayna
ecocentrikguy
Mar 26, 2006 1:15 pm
Very cool! Many thanks to google and Emil for their efforts in making canvas a usable standard. I've uploaded a new version of Canvas Painter with the google ...
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Andrew
triptych999
Mar 27, 2006 2:41 am
Gee, how did you all get wind of this compatibility layer? I've been posting canvas examples for a while now and this is the first I've heard of it......
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Andrew
triptych999
Mar 28, 2006 10:48 pm
Via Emil, http://me.eae.net/archive/2006/03/28/explorercanvas/ I found the link to the sourceforge project : http://sourceforge.net/projects/excanvas/ - Looks...
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Arve Bersvendsen
yrandomtox
Mar 29, 2006 3:34 pm
Some of you have requested getPixel and setPixel for the bitmap canvas. Well, we have some news for you -- Opera has actually had this support all along, but...
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Andrew
triptych999
Mar 29, 2006 10:38 pm
This is very cool! is the opera-2dgame context earmarked for creating mobile games perhaps? ... canvas. ... support all...
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Marcus Engene
ehsmeng_ch
Mar 29, 2006 10:53 pm
This is really splendid! And it immediately raises at least two obvious questions a) Are these new functions (eventually) getting into the standard context...
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Rafael Robayna
ecocentrikguy
Mar 30, 2006 12:43 am
It looks like the google canvas compatibility layer has been released on sourceforge as ExplorerCanvas . Included in the package are a few more canvas examples...
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ecocentrikguy
Mar 30, 2006 12:45 am
sorry didn't see that Andrew had already posted this...
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Mike Shaver
shvmoz
Mar 30, 2006 12:55 am
... I'm behind on my WhatWG mail, but I don't think these extensions have been proposed. The main Mozilla canvas developer only heard about the new API...
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canvasgame
Mar 30, 2006 7:53 am
... canvas. ... support all ... I am very pleased this support has been added, I was beginning to think I would need to continue canvascape development in Java...
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Vladimir Vukicevic
vvukicevic
Mar 30, 2006 8:38 am
Hi, ... Interesting stuff! What are some of the use cases for this, other than providing color filters? That can be useful, to be sure, but it seems like a...
