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    <bug>
          <bug_id>19099</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-09-28 01:23:15 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>There should be a standard method to ask contexts for the current state, as best as is known.  E.g, text written (and not known to be overwritten) and active regions with the commands to which they link.  - JimJJewett@gmail.com</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2012-12-30 00:42:52 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WHATWG</product>
          <component>HTML</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>NEEDSINFO</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-canvas-element</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>Unsorted</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>jimjjewett</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
          
          <qa_contact>contributor</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>74700</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2012-09-28 01:23:15 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-canvas-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-canvas-element

Comment:
There should be a standard method to ask contexts for the current state, as
best as is known.  E.g, text written (and not known to be overwritten) and
active regions with the commands to which they link.  - JimJJewett@gmail.com

Posted from: 129.33.1.37
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>80690</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2012-12-30 00:42:52 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Can you elaborate? What&apos;s the use case? How would you use this?</thetext>
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    </bug>

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