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Bug 8034 - It appears that there is no way to draw more than one line of text per call to fillText/strokeText, so what is the point of discarding any line-height value set in the font attribute?
Summary: It appears that there is no way to draw more than one line of text per call t...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-10-23 20:08 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:59 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-10-23 20:08:19 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text

Comment:
It appears that there is no way to draw more than one line of text per call to fillText/strokeText, so what is the point of discarding any line-height value set in the font attribute?

Posted from: 69.17.112.3
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-10-25 04:32:55 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The point is to not confuse authors by making it seem like there is something going on with the line-height when, as you say, there's no way to have more than one line anyway. Also, it means we don't have to worry about text alignment modes that relate to the line box height or inline box height rather than the em box height.