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Bug 9191 - Is there a way to get the text back out? e.g., context.getTexts returning an array of the character strings ever added with fillText and strokeText? -jJ
Summary: Is there a way to get the text back out? e.g., context.getTexts returning an...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (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: 2010-03-04 21:32 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-05 12:59 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-03-04 21:32:16 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text

Comment:
Is there a way to get the text back out?  e.g., context.getTexts returning an
array of the character strings ever added with fillText and strokeText? -jJ

Posted from: 32.97.110.59
Comment 1 Jim Jewett 2010-03-04 21:34:52 UTC 
This was inspired by bug 7011, but just expands on a specific technique that had been given as an example of partial solution to that bug.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-03-30 02:53:38 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: There is no way to get anything out of a <canvas> other than pixel data — it's an immediate mode API. For retained-mode graphics on the Web, the right technology to use is SVG.