Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: HTML inside a CANVAS Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:16:39 +0200 Organization: solani.org Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <5486a32e-a929-445a-98eb-1aaa2ed3dcc0@googlegroups.com> <6cf0589d-a169-45aa-9a2e-617ba94bb989@googlegroups.com> <52782ed7-0468-43e5-aac8-299d3e2a7b8e@googlegroups.com> <92894a2d-9f8d-4eb0-ac3c-2aa3d6c9115e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1470046575 19542 eJwNyMEBADEEBMCWCEuUg9B/CXfzHIixtavBFIsN2lEvMD9cdQn16NPccYo2lTK5ip0YwVRFiYt9S1YjGXnBI/QCou3k2VP374MpeDz6AHD7Hg0= (1 Aug 2016 10:16:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:16:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-User-ID: eJwNyMEBwCAIA8CVDJAg45Qq+4/Q3vPogt4MUcHhXI9ahgKZMwM767aSHhP1NOKk9jYV/u3THwYzEIA= In-Reply-To: <92894a2d-9f8d-4eb0-ac3c-2aa3d6c9115e@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ji5D99NPSE1oGbSExMFACWskt8= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNzIEBwDAEBMCVCE+MQ7D/CO0NcBBje64GUyz2qlF7LVszT3VEYKWHUnZS+YnciTzQFrZUbzpByHjOc00WQpXzN0OiV8Jpa3iPFWC0H4yTHco= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:31004 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. -- Christoph M. Becker