[TYPO3-team-core-v5] Feature: ExtJS Button/Icon with Canvas effects

["Christian Müller [kitsunet]"]

On 04.10.2010 12:59, Steffen Kamper wrote:
> Christian Müller (Kitsunet) schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> after hearing what Jens and Berit plan for icons and buttons I had the
>> idea to create a custom extended variant of Ext.Button (or something
>> else if you have other ideas), that could make use of canvas in
>> rendering, so that we can have effects like shadows, glows, maybe even
>> text rendering with defined fonts. And the effects could/should be
>> assignable to states of the element (eg. active, hover etc.).
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>
> Sounds interesting.
> Please have a look at
> http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
>
> The output should be compatible with all used browsers (or look like the
> same), i think above project is a good choice for achieving.
>
> vg Steffen

Of course,

actually I plan to use canvas Tags and excanvas.js [1] as compatibility 
layer for IE.

We tested that during the v5 team sprint meeting last week.

Christian

[1] http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/