Comments on: IE9 Canvas Support Leaked by AMD?

By: csuwldcat

csuwldcat — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:25:21 +0000

@ironfroggy – Not sure why it is such a bad situation YET, if Direct2D is used as the background 2D drawing engine and they offer the same API canvas does I don’t really care if it is named Ballmer2D or ThrowChairs2D. All in all, it depends on whether or not IE will provide a canvas API, which I agree with you that they should.

Here is my analogy of the current situation: If IE offered a JS engine named LittleMermaid – in keeping with their layout engine’s nomenclature – and it supported the latest ECMA standard and was fast as hell, would you really care what it looked like before it hit the compiler? We’ll just have to see what they choose to do.

PS – Redmond, if you don’t give us a canvas API on top of Direct2D you are a lot dumber than someone who wraps an entire web page in an HTML form tag…err…sorry, I forgot…

By: ironfroggy

ironfroggy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:26:32 +0000

If IE brings support only when its holding hands with Direct2D is it really any better of a situation?

By: grayrest

grayrest — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:57:36 +0000

We know MS has been working on canvas accessibility, so it’s definitely on the radar. I’m pretty confident it’ll be there. Here’s a quote from an arstechncia article (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/ie9-standards-and-why-acid3-isnt-the-priority.ars):

> For example, every single JavaScript and DOM API used by the top 7,000 websites was recorded. IE9 will deliver support for every API used by those sites.

I’m assuming SOMEONE is using the canvas tag in the top 7k, even if that’s in the form of cufón.