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by jasonkester 5679 days ago
Apologies for going Meta, but the above downvote is the strangest one I've yet seen here.

I can't come up with a way to read my comment as inflamatory or "me too". The only thing I can guess is that it's a downvote for disagreement, but without any commentary I can't imagine why the downvoter would do so. It seems like the kind of thing one could easily refute with evidence, if one had evidence that it was incorrect.
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ZeroGravitas 5678 days ago
It wasn't me this time, but I've unfortunately downvoted plenty of good comments when using an iPhone (or similar touch based device). The two arrows are simply too close together for people using capacitive touchscreens and/or with fine motor control issues. If it's only one downvote I'd always bear in mind the possibility that it's due to fat-fingers, not your comment.
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RyanMcGreal 5678 days ago
I still don't understand why HN doesn't allow users the opportunity to change a vote on reflection.
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pak 5678 days ago
I didn't downvote you, and I've spent enough time on reddit to stop questioning downvotes because they are too stochastic to spend braincell-seconds trying to interpret. But when I read your comment I immediately questioned why you would call canvas best suited for rendering vector graphics. If anything, VML/SVG via something like Raphael.js is best suited for that, because you can use graphics data exportable from a vector graphics editor like Illustrator, and manipulate the data in your page in a structured way--Raphael somewhat mitigates the painfulness of DOM operations.

I would say canvas is best suited for rendering/processing sprite or pixel-based graphics that does not need mouse interaction, if I had to pigeonhole it. Sure, I've used it via Flot to draw charts, and for purposes that were decidedly vector-ish, but I would never expect to be able to manipulate that stuff without complicated collision data and redraw logic. The API for drawing with the canvas pen is moderately featured but drawing imperatively and trying to act on <canvas>-mouse interaction just isn't scalable or maintainable.

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