Re: "Images must be in PNG format"

On Apr 18, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Dirk Schulze wrote:

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> On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:57 AM, fantasai wrote:
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>> On 04/18/2012 10:04 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 6:54:22 PM, Dirk wrote:
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>>> DS>  Hi,
>>> 
>>> DS>  I just saw that the Wiki for creating ref tests says: "Images
>>> DS>  must be in PNG format."[1]. Can we be less strict here and allow
>>> DS>  for instance SVG files as images as well?
>>> 
>>> This is clearly needed, since some tests require a non-raster image whose size etc depends on the computation of viewports.
>>> 
>>> And there are already tests that use SVG.
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>> Yes, SVG should be allowed. But only where a vector image is needed, as
>> not all CSS implementations support SVG.
> This is a vague definition :( For instance what about a test like this: http://hg.csswg.org/test/file/tip/contributors/aryehgregor/submitted/transform-background-005.html/
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> The test itself has nothing to do with SVG and it uses the flag SVG. Should it use a PNG instead?

Probably, yes. Given that some CSS clients may support transform and not support SVG, shouldn't they be able to pass the test suite too?

Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:12:49 UTC