Canvas:Text

Text in Canvas

The <canvas> spec currently lacks any methods for drawing text; this was done to simplify initial implementation.

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string textStyle;
void drawText(in string textToDraw);

Do we need measureText?

textStyle: CSS 2.1 "font" shorthand, e.g. "12pt bold Helvetica". Reading textStyle just returns the last string that was passed in. Defaults to whatever the user's default sans serif font is (maybe serif font? what's the default for text if no font is specified?).

• roc: You will be able to create a hidden IFRAME full of properly laid-out text with full CSS styling (plus MathML and whatever else), and draw that to a canvas --- but that won't use canvas fill/stroke.

• vlad: Yeah, I think that's useful as well when you need to create a more complex text layout; but it seems overkill when you just want a simple string. Being able to use stroke/fill is also important (since you can do things like text with a gradient/pattern/etc).