Archive for January 30th, 2013

Browsers render text without any ability to automatically balance text across lines. For example, when you have text spanning several lines, browsers render it something like this: Add 1 word at a time to the current line until no more words fit. Break text at that point and add the next word to a new... Continue reading →

What are winding rules? Paths are a very basic building block of any graphics library. Every time you draw a path, your browser needs to determine if a point on the canvas falls inside the enclosed curve. When the path is a simple circle or rectangle, this is obvious but when the path intersects itself... Continue reading →