Flakey on ipod touch (and presumably iphone)

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First two demos show no canvas text at all (but regular html text and the 
canvas alignment lines and boxes are visible); third demo has what looks to 
be issue erasing, 4th works sometimes, other times either fails entirely or 
fills in text outside of the expected window. Simply reloading gives 
different behaviors, apparently randomly. 

ipod touch OS 3.1.2 with Safari. 

This is presumably comparable with Safari 3, which has no native canvas text 
support. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bort...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2009 at 8:24

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Hello, thank you for your feedback. I haven't been able to test it on an iPod, 
neither 
on an iPhone, so it will be hard for me to debug it before next year. I'll have 
to work 
on a mobile app, and I'll have an iPhone to work on for this project, so I'll 
be able 
to debug it. 
I don't think this is the same Safari version than on a computer, though.

Original comment by fabien.menager on 5 Dec 2009 at 4:53

• Changed state: Accepted

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Safari 4 does support context.fillText, while the current Mobile Safari 
doesn't. The problem there is that it seems 
to support the rest of the canvas specification. For my example project 
http://trash.gorn.ch/bgjs/ it renders 
everything but the numbers in the border. This is currently a big issue for me 
as I need it for a real project I 
would be glad to help you fixing it if that's somehow possible (in the mean 
while I will search for a solution 
myself.)

Original comment by tobias.e...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2010 at 10:16

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Mobile Safari in OS 3.1.2 reports that it supports canvas text, but it actually 
doesn't.  You have to force the 
canvas-text library to be used, e.g.:

<script type="text/javascript" src="canvas.text.js?reimplement=true"></script>

Original comment by vito.mil...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2010 at 7:03

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Original comment by fabien.menager on 28 Jul 2010 at 3:39

• Changed state: Fixed