I tried to implement text support in ExCanvas, I based my implementation on the work
I made on the lib I made to add this support on browsers that don't already do :
http://code.google.com/p/canvas-text/. This lib works on IE 6/7/8 with ExCanvas, but
is really slow as it draws the glyphs with the canvas functions moveTo, lineTo and
quadraticCurveTo.
A solution is, as you said, to use the VML text support. I joined a patch containing
these features (strokeText, fillText and measureText). It implements a big part of
the W3 spec (a little bit less than my implementation in canvas-text : the biggest
problem is that it doesn't take x/y scale into account, but can it be fixed with the
Matrix filter). The patch also contains the little modifications I talked about in
another issue (little code optimizations).

Please let me know whet you think about it.

Fabien

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