29a.ch by Jonas Wagner

Emulating Canvas fillText in Firefox 3.0

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After running into problems with canvas-text I wrote this code to emulate the html5 canvas text methods in firefox 3.0. It's not a complete implementation but it should be enough for most cases.

if(proto.mozMeasureText && !proto.measureText) {
    proto.__defineSetter__('font', function(x) { this.mozTextStyle = x;});
    proto.__defineGetter__('font', function() { return this.mozTextStyle;});
}
if(proto.mozMeasureText && !proto.measureText) {
    proto.measureText = function(text) { return {'width': this.mozMeasureText(text)}; };
}
if(proto.mozPathText && !proto.strokeText) {
    proto.strokeText = function(text, x, y) {
        this.translate(x, y);
        this.mozPathText(text);
        this.stroke();
        this.translate(-x, -y);
    };
}
if(proto.mozDrawText && !proto.fillText) {
    proto.fillText = function(text, x, y) {
        this.translate(x, y);
        this.mozDrawText(text);
        this.translate(-x, -y);
    };
}