On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > we were looking at how resetClip [1] could be implemented in WebKit. > Looking over the Core Graphics implementation, this feature can't be > implemented without significant overhead. I also found an email from 2007 > where Maciej states the same concern. [2] > > Since no browser has implemented it, can it be removed from the spec? > > Rik > > 1: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#dom-context-2d-resetclip > 2: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.whatwg.discuss/10582
It seems kinda bizarre that it's hard to reset, given that you can remove it by saving and restoring context. It seems bizarre that it would *ever* be hard to reset, to be honest. That's just plain weird. I mean, just what *does* CoreGraphics do with restore()? ~TJ