9191 2010-03-04 21:32:16 +0000 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 2010-10-05 12:59:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian jimjjewett mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 32815 0 contributor 2010-03-04 21:32:16 +0000 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 32816 1 jimjjewett 2010-03-04 21:34:52 +0000 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. 34124 2 ian 2010-03-30 02:53:38 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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.