TypeScript: problems with type system

Question

I\'m just testing typescript in VisualStudio 2012 and have a problem with its type system. My html site has a canvas tag with the id \"mycanvas\". I\'m trying to draw a rect

Answer 1

It seems this is being corrected in the .9 version of TypeScript: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/03/25/working-on-typescript-0-9-generics-overload-on-constants-and-compiler-performance.aspx See the section on "Overload on Constants" where the canvas tag is explicitly shown.