Re: HTML inside a CANVAS

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject	Re: HTML inside a CANVAS
Date	Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:51:40 +0200
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Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> On 31.07.2016 at 21:19, bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 8:24:34 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Haufe (TNO)
>> wrote:
>>> You still haven't said WHY you want to do it this way. You're in a web
>>> browser, the web browser already has an HTML form and SVG support. WHY
>>> try to recreate it in canvas?
>> 
>> Oh....it's just more intuitive for me, something I'm completely used to -
>> comes from BASIC I guess, as a kid - you know, INPUT A$; and PRINT AT
>> 10,10; "Hello:" ...? As far as I'm concerned, CSS is STILL a nightmare!
>> All that stuff about "normal flow" and what not - you never know where
>> your text will end up, on screen!....
> 
> With a canvas you might not even know whether the text ends up on the
> screen at all, though.  Furthermore, reading text rendered as image is
> hard or even impossible for some.

ACK.  Canvas is for *bitmap* graphics.  Use Canvas for that, SVG for vector 
graphics, and (X)HTML for Web forms.  Or, as Scotty said^Wyelled, “Houw many 
times do I have to tell ye???  The rrright tool for the rrright job!!!” ;-)
 
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HTML inside a CANVAS bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-25 11:22 -0700
  Re: HTML inside a CANVAS "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-07-25 11:49 -0700
    Re: HTML inside a CANVAS bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-26 10:56 -0700
      Re: HTML inside a CANVAS "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-07-26 16:26 -0700
        Re: HTML inside a CANVAS bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-28 07:22 -0700
          Re: HTML inside a CANVAS "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-07-28 07:54 -0700
            Re: HTML inside a CANVAS bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-31 12:19 -0700
              Re: HTML inside a CANVAS "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-08-01 12:16 +0200
                Re: HTML inside a CANVAS Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-08-01 14:51 +0200
  Re: HTML inside a CANVAS bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-26 10:57 -0700
    Re: HTML inside a CANVAS "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-07-27 00:21 +0200
    Re: HTML inside a CANVAS "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-07-26 16:12 -0700
      Re: HTML inside a CANVAS bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-07-28 07:22 -0700

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