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Consider: http://jsfiddle.net/ZxR6P/1/ http://goo.gl/rPN5Eg It would be useful to be able to control, on a per-point basis (including points that are at the end/start of subpaths), when stroking a path with a pattern, whether: - the dash pattern should continue at that point - the dash pattern should reset at that point - the dash pattern should be adjusted somehow so that between this point and a subsequent point, the pattern is aligned so that the point coincide with the start/end (respectively) of an "on" dash in the pattern
A potential use case: To have sides of a box that begin and end with whole dashes *and* the dashes at the corners of the box are joined.
What's the implementor interest on this? It's mostly a convenience API, though certainly the convenience is substantial compared to doing the calculation manually, especially for anything that isn't a rectangle...
Mixed feelings. I believe the feature makes a lot of sense and it is relatively low hanging fruit, but I am not seeing any web developer driven interest for it.
(In reply to Justin Novosad from comment #3) > Mixed feelings. I believe the feature makes a lot of sense and it is > relatively low hanging fruit, but I am not seeing any web developer driven > interest for it. I also don't see much interest. I would be more interested in providing an API that adjusts dashes along a path so the corners look nice.
W3C Bugzilla is closing down, and as such we're closing all feature request bugs against HTML as "WONTFIX", at least wontfix-in-this-bugtracker. If you still think this feature is valuable, please feel free to open a new issue against https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues ; the community has gotten much more active and involved since the Bugzilla days, and you might get a more useful dialogue there.