Re: CSS SVG Discussion on Thursday

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Patrick Dengler <patd@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  I posted the document that we could use as background or a launching
> point for our discussion on Thursday between the CSS and SVG working
> groups.   Perhaps it is useful.
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> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/images/6/64/SVGCSSTPAC.pdf
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> Should SVG filters be supported by CSS and apply to HTML?

Allow me to mention that this has been supported in Firefox for a while now.
The spec extension is straightforward. 'filter' induces a stacking context
on the element, much like 'opacity'. The only significant issue is deciding
what the SVG "bounding box" means for HTML content, and that's already come
up elsewhere.

We also support 'mask' and 'clip-path' applying to HTML in the same way.
They should probably be on your list.

Also, via our 'element()' CSS extension we support SVG paint servers applied
to HTML elements. The use-cases for this are marginal --- SVG images and CSS
features cover most of the use-cases already --- but it was relatively easy
to implement.

Rob
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