Summary
I never planned to code up a text layout engine from scratch. It took me the best part of four months to complete. Instead of laying text out in boxes, why not lay it out in shapes? Any shape! And for bonus points, track the text along bendy paths.
Rik Abushaar is the maintainer of an open source JavaScript library. He says he is not a normal person and doesn't like to worry about his place in the world. He has never felt the need to measure his worth by the wage he earns or his job title.
One of the most important childhood lessons was that there are no Knights In Shining Armour, especially not in the real world. But my aggressive self-reliance? That probably arose due to me being born a long time after the rest of the brood. Having parents who fed me and shod me and let me just get on with life was more blessing than curse.
After Flash died, space opened up for intrepid code warriors to write libraries for the HTML element. Most canvas libraries use the scene graph to stamp a red box on a black background. I think the main reason why people don't use Scrawl-canvas is because it's too different to what they expect a canvas library to be.
I built my own tween system and added it to the library. I did it because I could do it; people have a right to moan about the big increase in the library’s size, but nobody has complained to me yet. The results of the work please me and, at the end of the day, that’S all that matters.
