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Bug 19677 - Add <canvas>.supportsContext(DOMString contextId, any... arguments)
Summary: Add <canvas>.supportsContext(DOMString contextId, any... arguments)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-10-23 20:55 UTC by Edward O'Connor
Modified: 2012-11-04 10:43 UTC (History)
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Description Edward O'Connor 2012-10-23 20:55:11 UTC
Web authors need a way to detect whether or not different canvas contexts are supported. Currently authors do this by calling <canvas>.getContext, but this can be very expensive.

Dean proposed adding a supportsContext method in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Sep/0119.html

Ian added <canvas>.supportsContext in r7482 of the WHATWG spec:
http://html5.org/r/7482
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/6e1081a860afd08e6aa0329032c9cf4106760a27

The work to implement <canvas>.supportsContext in WebKit is being tracked in
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70117

We should consider pulling this in for HTML5.
Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2012-10-23 20:56:00 UTC
Assigning to Silvia since the change has been made on the WHATWG side of things.
Comment 4 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-11-04 10:43:43 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/6e1081a860afd08e6aa0329032c9cf4106760a27
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/90c0786311cd92d5a4fd1c546e6a8a766c6d3b2c

Rationale: adopted resolution by WHATWG