On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Charles Pritchard <ch...@jumis.com> wrote: > [...] > We've been working on Javascript / Canvas projects for two years now. > > We're in the process of releasing full implementations targeting the Common > Runtime Language, > Java AWT, ActionScript and DCOM. > > I'm sure you can all recognize, that these components have their own vector > APIs, > and that we're only sending requests through as a proxy. > > While we can implement everything, even the non-zero winding rule, > there one part of the specification that's absolutely rotten. And that's the > #shadows section. > > I love a shadow, I love a good looking UI, but most of these APIs do not > have shadow > support for shapes.
Do the APIs not provide enough features so you can implement shadows yourself? e.g. Firefox uses Cairo which doesn't have any native support for shadows; but it can draw shapes onto an alpha-only surface, manually blur the pixels (if you can implement getImageData then I assume you must already have access to the raw pixels and can do the blurring efficiently), then draw the shape again, and composite everything appropriately, which results in a correct shadow implementation. I don't see what makes this fundamentally harder than implementing all the other required canvas features. > [...] -- Philip Taylor exc...@gmail.com
