[webkit-dev] Canvas path closure on stroke vs fill operations

[Darin Adler]

On May 17, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Brian R. Bogovich wrote:

> Is this behavior in Safari intentional?

The behavior in Safari was inherited from the underlying CoreGraphics  
library that's part of Mac OS X. A graphics context has a path, which  
is destroyed when you stroke or fill it. Apple's documentation got  
this wrong, and then that mistake was propagated into the WhatWG  
specification which was based on Apple documentation.

More recently, in the WebKit tip of tree, I've changed our  
implementation to match the WhatWG specification; even though that  
was originally not our intent, I think it's an OK semantic. We have  
not yet tested this change to see what effect it has on websites or  
Dashboard widgets, so I'm not sure if we're going to be able to keep  
this change for the next Safari and WebKit release, but I hope we can.

     -- Darin