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Bug 8863 - I need a way of interrogating features drawn onto a canvas. I would like to use a canvas to represent layers/groups of features...which i control wholistically as well as interrogate individually. Think of a map for example....it has layers...where each l
Summary: I need a way of interrogating features drawn onto a canvas. I would like to u...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-02 00:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-05 12:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-02-02 00:13:43 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-canvas-element

Comment:
I need a way of interrogating features drawn onto a canvas. I would like to
use a canvas to represent layers/groups of features...which i control
wholistically as well as interrogate individually. Think of a map for
example....it has layers...where each layer has shapes. I could write a
logical model to store this information...but i can imagine that this is
something people will need in the future. The ability to select features by
criteria would be very helpful too....such as select features that intersect
or union feature X....or select all polygons within coordinates X or with a
name like Y. Thanks

Posted from: 61.8.101.166
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-14 08:42:33 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: That use case is handled by SVG.