Re: [rap-dev] RAP GC in Internet Explorer

[Austin Riddle <austin.riddle@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rüdiger,

I had similar thinking, but thought I would ask anyway. 

In any case, I think the excanvas plugin for the incubator will be 
useful as a single source for the excanvas in widgets there and for 
consumers who produce there own widgets that require/use excanvas.

Thanks.

Rüdiger Herrmann wrote:
> Hi Austin,
>
> thanks for the hint. However, I don't see use of excanvas in RAP. Before 
> working on the GC we already had a basic VML abstraction in RAP. It was 
> introduced with rounded corners and gradients. This and the fact that 
> excanvas didn't provide everything that was necessary for the GC we 
> decided to extend our own VML code.
> Another aspect is that we want to keep the dependencies of RWT to the 
> same minimum as SWT does: a plug-in and a fragment.
>
> Regards,
> Rüdiger
>
>
> On 23.04.2010 17:37, Austin Riddle wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a CQ open for the Google Explorer Canvas (CQ3950) and a bug
> > 309010 regarding its inclusion in the RAP incubator because some 3rd
> > party libraries that we want to turn into custom widgets use excanvas.
> >
> > Since the RAP GC support for IE is currently VML based, I wasn't sure if
> > it would be useful there, but I'll ask anyway:
> >
> > If the CQ is approved, would the excanvas be useful to the efforts in
> > making GC work in Internet Explorer?
> >
> >     
>
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Austin Riddle
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