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The article claims that:

> Canvas 2D Context API – This API allows users to draw in browsers. However, on the WHATWG living standard, it is mentioned that this API is no longer being actively maintained.

I can't find any such mention in the WHATWG canvas page[1]. Is the article correct in its claim?

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/canvas.html

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Yeah that can’t be right. [There’s also the w3c version of the spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/) but I don’t see anything about that there either.

The only thing that might be true is that it’s essentially a frozen feature set, with nothing new being planned, but again I don’t see a mention of that.

MDN's CanvasRenderingContext2D page[1] suggests that there's a number of 'experimental technology' areas in the API - for instance the filter property[2] (which excites me: hand-coding a performant blur filter is a nightmare!) - which suggests the features are still under active development.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

[2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

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