HTML 5 canvas text and shadows documented
I’ve just finished documenting Firefox 3.1′s support for HTML 5 text in canvas elements, as well as our recently-landed support for shadow effects. Exciting stuff, complete with an example or two.
If you’re familiar with these technologies, as usual, I’d be thrilled if you’d give these docs a look and make sure they’re coherent and reasonably accurate. Or vice-versa.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Glad to see documentation for these. A few comments:
The default for “font” is actually “10px sans-serif” rather than 12px.
You may wish to phrase the description of shadowOffset* to say that it is unaffected by the current transformation matrix rather than saying it offsets by pixels, but that’s really a matter of taste, I suppose.
It may not be worth mentioning, but the “hanging” and “ideographic” baselines are currently not supported. They are silently treated like the “alphabetic” baseline.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Eric, thanks for the info. I’ve updated those articles accordingly.