[html4all] Discussion: "Accept requirement for immediate mode graphics a la canvas element"

[Philip TAYLOR]

Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

>>  The latter
>> will, by necessity, almost certainly be a /poor/
>> substitute,
> 
> Only if written by people who don't understand what they are doing (i.e.  
> the majority of content producers). Bit by bit people get better though -  
> a lot of people have some idea how to use alt now, which is an improvement  
> on 10 years ago.

Doesn't this pre-suppose that all manipulation
of a graphical 2-space can be adequately described
in words ?  With the best will in the world,
I can imagine complex animations that would
defeat most of us to describe ...
> 

>> However, the real question is "Does <canvas> allow
>> for fallback content at all?", and the draft spec.
>> totally fails to clarify this.
> 
> As far as I can see it does so. Otherwise I would be raising hell - as an  
> implementor of canvas, we need this. In any case, it should never be  
> allowed forward without doing so.

Would you talk me through your reading of the draft
spec. in support of that ?  I would like to belive
that it is true, but failed to find evidence in
the draft spec. as currently written.

* Phil.