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Im trying to port my game to iOS Impact. It seems to be choking on some native drawing controls. Specifically context.beginPath()

Is that expected to work?

Im getting the context via ig.system.context

Think I found my answer here:

"Note that only a tiny subset of the original Canvas API was implemented – and not very accurately at that. Most vector drawing functions (lineTo, curveTo etc.) are missing completely and others are implemented differently than in the spec. I'm working to improve this, but at the moment it's very much experimental."

from http://impactjs.com/documentation/ios/overview

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