[HTML] html-in-canvas

[progers]

WebKittens

@annevk, @smfr, @shallawa

Title of the proposal

html-in-canvas

URL to the spec

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas

Issue Tracker URL

No response

Explainer URL

No response

TAG Design Review URL

w3ctag/design-reviews#1204

Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

mozilla/standards-positions#1076

WebKit Bugzilla URL

No response

Radar URL

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Description

A fundamental capability missing from the web is the ability to complement <canvas> with HTML. Adding this capability enables <canvas> surfaces to benefit from features of browsers (text layout, interactivity, accessibility, etc).

This was most recently proposed as canvas place element (#403), and a concern raised was around retained-mode canvas. This has been addressed by returning to an immediate-mode API. This comment outlines the major changes, and the explainer (https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas) has been updated with all of the details.