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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Chris Warburton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:***@googlemail.com" target="_blank">***@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">In the case of an OS, providing a dumb box to draw on is much easier</span><br>
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than a complete, complementary suite of MVC/Morphic/etc. components,<br>
even though developers are forced to implement their own incompatible<br>
integration layers, if they bother at all.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This is why I'm not a fan of HTML5 canvas, since it's a dumb box which<br>
strips away the precious-little semantics the Web has, and restrict<br>
mashups to little more than putting existing boxes next to each other.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is "worse is better", but there also is "less is more".
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Chris Warburton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:***@googlemail.com" target="_blank">***@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">In the case of an OS, providing a dumb box to draw on is much easier</span><br>
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than a complete, complementary suite of MVC/Morphic/etc. components,<br>
even though developers are forced to implement their own incompatible<br>
integration layers, if they bother at all.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
This is why I'm not a fan of HTML5 canvas, since it's a dumb box which<br>
strips away the precious-little semantics the Web has, and restrict<br>
mashups to little more than putting existing boxes next to each other.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is "worse is better", but there also is "less is more".