Canvas Text Backwards Compatibility
Fabien Ménager has created a Canvas Text Javascript library which implements the three methods used to draw text on the canvas element (strokeText, fillText and measureText) to the browser versions which don’t already support it. That’s the Firefox 2/3.0, Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 9+, Safari 3.x and Chrome 1.0 browsers in the group.
Fabien discusses his aim when building the library:
The main goal of this implementation is to respect the specs given by the W3C and WHATWG for the HTML5 <canvas> tag.
Canvas Text doesn’t change the already implemented functions in Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4 and Chrome 2+ as these are already to spec and doesn’t require any other library except ExCanvas for Internet Explorer.
Sweet, sweet canvas text
Provided with the tool on the Canvas Text codebase are some examples of it working using positioning, animation, transformations and to show performance.
Comments
Rosalyn Bulgrin
What a fantastic blog post, how can I make is so that I receive an email every time you make a fresh update?
Posted on August 26, 2011
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