1208712 - Incorrect code snippet explaining

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Serge Lebedev]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

In Lines section of Drawing Shapes Canvas API Tutorial[1] the code snippet explanation states

> This starts by calling beginPath() to start a new shape path.

But "beginPath" method is never called in corresponding code snippet, it creates "Path2D" objects instead.

That's why that code snippet OR it's explanation needs a correction.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Drawing_shapes#Lines

Comment 1

[Serge Lebedev]

Code snippets in "Arcs" and "Bezier and quadratic curves" sections of the same page use "Path2D" too, but "Path2D" is actually introduced later in the page. And it is stated in the "Arcs" section
> For each arc, we start a new path by calling beginPath().
Which is incorrect.

So I think that the code snippets are to be corrected.

Comment 2

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

Thank you very much for this report. I have reverted the changes that put Path2D objects into these examples. They are indeed only introduced later in the article, and shouldn't be used before.