15026 2011-12-01 05:23:53 +0000 Need a mechanism to draw elliptical arcs. Once available this can be extended to draw an ellipse. 1. Current methods of drawing them with beziers/quadratic curves do not work well and are approximations. 2. Using arcto/arc followed by scaling distorts the 2011-12-07 20:48:28 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML Canvas 2D Context unspecified Other other RESOLVED DUPLICATE 14579 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian avinandan.sengupta cam ian jackalmage kennyluck mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 60715 0 contributor 2011-12-01 05:23:53 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Need a mechanism to draw elliptical arcs. Once available this can be extended to draw an ellipse. 1. Current methods of drawing them with beziers/quadratic curves do not work well and are approximations. 2. Using arcto/arc followed by scaling distorts the strokestyle 3. Generating elliptical arcs by approximating lines, etc are tedious to implement and error prone Posted from: 192.203.57.28 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.41 Safari/535.7 60716 1 avinandan.sengupta 2011-12-01 05:31:08 +0000 Any specific reason why this is not a part of the API? All well known drawing systems support this. 60729 2 jackalmage 2011-12-01 15:55:18 +0000 This is planned to be added next time canvas paths are revisited, along with a first-class Path object and other things. So, just wait for it, and it will come. ^_^ 60746 3 cam 2011-12-01 23:44:50 +0000 When we get to doing this, can we keep in mind that it would be beneficial to use the same objects for both SVG and canvas? Having two kinds of path object in the platform seems suboptimal. 61126 4 ian 2011-12-07 20:48:28 +0000 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14579 ***