HTML5 Canvas v2.0 - Dirty Edition.

Some interesting ideas. Because these are new features, I'm reassigning these to html.next for consideration.

Mass move to "HTML WG"

Mass move to "HTML WG"

Ok, to summarize:

1. create a linear-gradient that lets you set an angle and color stops. 

Q. how does this improve the use of createLinearGradient, and individual color stops? It seems to make a longer single line, rather than a more readable individual lines. (gradient.addColorStop("0", "magenta"), gradient.addColorStop(".50","yellow"), etc... 

What key words do you see for angle or side to corner. You've got "to bottom", are there others and how would they operate?

2. A simpler transform that takes rotation and translate parameters, instead of only a matrix, as well as degrees rather than radians. Sounds handy. I'd add-in for rotate having an optional setting of center point of rotation (rotate(45deg,100,100).

3. Canvas object with optional width and height parameters. I like that one. Without the extra parameters, it would be default (300x150?), correct? 

4. Giving colors as either a hex block or a text color value, plus transparency (alpha channel). This looks like a quick way to set a color value other than full alpha, since rgba() can substitute for a color value in most situations. Good idea, though I wonder what the perf hit would be for implementers to parse before applying the alpha. Lets toss it out there and see what people think.

Assigning to myself to track.

(In reply to comment #0)
> I have too many ideas.
> 
> 1. I suggest remove "CanvasGradient" object and add:
> 
>   linear-gradient(
>       [ [ <angle> | to <side-or-corner> ] ,]? 
>       <color-stop>[, <color-stop>]+
>   )
> 
> For "fillStyle" and "strokeStyle".
> For example:
>   ctx.fillStyle = "linear-gradient(to bottom, #ffffff 0%,#e5e5e5 100%)";

CSS gradients only make sense in the box model. For instance, what is "bottom" for a canvas gradient?
This is too confusing to be useful.

> 
> 2. I suggest new transformations:
>   ctx.transform(String cssTransform);
>   ctx.setTransform(String cssTransform);
> 
> For example:
>   ctx.setTransform("translate(10px) rotate(45deg)");
>   ctx.setTransform("matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)");
> 
> Old:
>   ctx.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);

There's active development on a Matrix object that will harmonize transforms between SVG, canvas, WebGL and CSS. 
It will be less confusing if this new object is integrated in canvas.

> 
> 3. I suggest "Canvas" object:
>   var canvas = new Canvas(100, 100);
>   var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
>   ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 100, 100);

What would be the advantage? It seems like you can already do this.

> 
> 4. I suggest new color system:
>   rgba(white, 0.5) instead of rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)
>   rgba(#00FF00, 0.5) instead of rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.5)

Canvas takes CSS colors. Maybe it's better to propose that color proposal on www-style

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