21939 2013-05-06 19:06:14 +0000 <canvas>: Path introspection 2017-07-21 10:55:45 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other All RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#path2d-objects P3 enhancement Needs Impl Interest 1 contributor ian annevk evan.exe ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 87278 0 contributor 2013-05-06 19:06:14 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#path-objects Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#path-objects Referrer: Comment: Path objects would be much more useful if their individual commands (moveTo, lineTo, etc.) could be inspected from JavaScript. This would allow for the JavaScript implementation of missing features such as text-to-path conversion, boolean shape operations, custom transforms (e.g. perspective), custom stroke styles, and so on. Posted from: 173.228.28.163 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.73 Safari/537.36 88923 1 ian 2013-06-07 21:45:16 +0000 Yeah, that's an obvious next step. One day. 94713 2 ian 2013-10-14 21:34:13 +0000 One problem with this is that it requires that we define exactly what the representation is, when it would otherwise need to be an approximation. Consider the path constructed out of text, or the path constructed out of stroking another path that contains a bezier curve. 128753 3 annevk 2017-07-21 10:55:45 +0000 If this is still desired, please file a new issue at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/new.