On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > For Opera 9.5 beta we implemented some experimental extensions to > <canvas> involving SVGSvgElement. SVGSvgElement is supported as "image" > argument to both drawImage and createPattern. (An HTMLImageElement > pointing to an SVG element is also supported, but that seems natural if > you support SVG from <img>.) > > For drawImage the pixel size of the SVG is determined as follows: > > 1. The image size parameters passed to drawImage > 2. The intrinsic size of the SVG image > 3. 300 x 150 > > For createPattern it is as follows: > > 1. The intrinsic size of the SVG image > 2. 300 x 150 > > (It would be nice if createPattern was extended to allow height/width > arguments as well.) > > The intrinsic size of the SVG image is the specified size with > percentages resolved against 300 x 150, and sizes depending on the > font-size resolved against the computed font-size of the SVGSvgElement > (will be the browser default most of the time). > > The SVG image is always rendered at time 0 for animated images. > > Drawing an SVG image currently marks the canvas context as unsafe so > toDataURL() and getImageData() throw. We expect to make this story a bit > nicer at some point.
As far as I can tell this doesn't require any changes to HTML5, since the same applies here as applies to a regular <img>, right? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
