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Bug 19099 - 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
Summary: There should be a standard method to ask contexts for the current state, as b...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-09-28 01:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-12-30 00:42 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-09-28 01:23:15 UTC 
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

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-12-30 00:42:52 UTC 
Can you elaborate? What's the use case? How would you use this?