14580 2011-10-27 22:10:30 +0000 filing a separate feature request as requested in http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14562 --- Please add a more elaborate font metrics object such as currently shimmed on https://github.com/Pomax/fontmetrics.js, so that graphics involving text 2012-05-14 19:42:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML Canvas 2D Context unspecified Other other RESOLVED DUPLICATE 7798 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian lrosenth mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 59108 0 contributor 2011-10-27 22:10:30 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: filing a separate feature request as requested in http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14562 --- Please add a more elaborate font metrics object such as currently shimmed on https://github.com/Pomax/fontmetrics.js, so that graphics involving text that has to interact with the canvas graphics (like every game that uses canvas2d, for instance) stops being a headache. This won't break work already done by people so far, and will make life a lot easier for people who actually use canvas. More importantly, it makes canvas more interesting for people who currently forego canvas for things like flash because just text width s not enough to work with text-as-graphics (something very different from working with text). The issue is brushed on in bug 7798, but this is only a request for "height", which is not really enough for playing with rasterised text on a canvas. It's also a ticket from over two years ago without any progress on it, even though all major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE and Safari) have had support for canvas and the canvas2d text metrics object for a while now. Now might be a good time to close that bug as incomplete feature request, to be superseded by a more complete request instead. Posted from: 205.250.164.138 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.187 Safari/535.1 59359 1 ian 2011-11-01 05:39:27 +0000 7798 is acting as the placeholder for the next TextMetrics update, it's not just about height any more. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7798 ***