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Can you explain what you mean? According to caniuse[1] it has been supported for a while. [1]https://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas https://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas
by lonnyk 8y ago
Can you explain what you mean? According to caniuse[1] it has been supported for a while.
[1]https://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas https://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas
*EDIT I misread the parent. I didn't put the context for that paragraph together and read 'just' as in 'right now' instead of 'just decided to'.
- SllX 8y agoApple was the originator and original implementer of the canvas tag, in support of a feature they added to their Desktop operating system in 2005. Prior their implementation, canvas was not a tag that existed, nor supported in any version of HTML at that time, but it was later incorporated into a new version of HTML. Apple was a minor browser developer as well as a minor OS developer and minor system designer at the time.
- olliej 8y agoThe canvas tag (and canvas APIs) were first developed/shipped by Apple in tiger (so more than a decade ago) so yes, it has existed for quite a while :)
- gsnedders 8y agoAnd note that the parsing of the canvas element was changed in a backwards incompatible way compared with how Apple originally shipped it. (It was originally a void element, with no closing tag, like img. It was changed to not be, which made the rest of the page vanish into the canvas element.) Standardisation isn't always plain sailing.
- quink 8y agoI was confused as well, as Apple literally invented <canvas>. I think what he meant to say was "Remember that Apple just went ahead and implemented the Canvas tag. [without waiting on any standards organisation]"
- lonnyk 8y agoYeah, I agree w/ your reading of the paragraph.
- solarkraft 8y ago(sorry)