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excanvas traditionally converted canvas commands into VML elements Internet
Explorer for
Windows understands. There's now a new alternate version of excanvas that
translates canvas
commands into Silverlight. It's not part of the latest excanvas 0002 release,
but is in their repository
and will presumably be part of excanvas 0003.
The Silverlight version has at least two benefits that I can see: 1. images are
drawn well (see issue
#41 for why they're not drawn well with the VML version); 2. lines are drawn
the correct thickness.
I don't want to use the Silverlight version of excanvas exclusively because
that would require that
the Microsoft Silverlight plugin be installed, and one of the properties of
Canviz I rather like is that
it doesn't require any browser plugins.
It would be nice if Canviz would determine at runtime whether Silverlight is
installed, and then
dynamically load either the VML excanvas.js or the Silverlight excanvas.js,
using the same dynamic
loading technique in issue #20. Microsoft shows here how you can determine if
Silverlight is
installed:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightjs
Note that all of this is applicable to Internet Explorer on Windows only. All
other browsers would
continue to use the native browser canvas as they do now.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by ryandesi...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2008 at 8:50
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
ExplorerCanvas release 3 is out, and it does not contain the Silverlight
version. When asked about this on the
mailing list, the developers said this is because of some outstanding issues
with the Silverlight script, and that
they plan to merge the Silverlight and VML versions into a single script. So
for Canviz we may not have to do
anything but wait for this to happen.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-excanvas/browse_thread/thread/e2d9dc2ee588
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Original comment by ryandesi...@gmail.com on 19 May 2009 at 10:42
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
ryandesi...@gmail.com
on 31 Dec 2008 at 8:50The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: