On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Elliott Sprehn <espr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was looking at the canvas Path API and had some concerns. In > particular it's inconsistent with the rest of canvas: > > We already have CanvasGradient and CanvasPattern in the global > namespace, so this should probably be called CanvasPath. > > We also have createLinearGradient() and createPattern(), but this new > thing is "new Path". > > Could we get some consistency here? Like adding new CanvasGradient() > (or a createPath() method) to match up with Path and renaming this > thing CanvasPath?
I think the SVGWG would be opposed to that - we rather like the Path api and would appreciate being able to appropriate it for our own uses (merging with the <path> API). I'm fine with gradients/patterns moving to a plain constructor rather than a factory method, though. ~TJ