Re: Emacs canvas support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:20:18 +0300
> 
> > Did you try using svg.el?
> 
> I tried, but svg is not great, it has many unfixed problems with scaling
> and backgrounds.

Cannot these bugs be fixed?

> OTOH, I hope with canvas it would be easy to draw such shapes around
> the tab name like in web browsers shown below, and also to implement
> overlapping tabs.  At least canvas in web browsers allow doing such
> custom drawings.

The problem with canvas is that we have yet to figure out how to teach
the display engine handle them correctly and efficiently.  svg.el
doesn't have that problem.