Re: [css3-images] Defining SVG paint servers as a CSS <image>

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Is there any particular reason you're using element() instead of url()
>>> for this?
>>
>> Yes. No spec defines background:url(file.svg#pattern) to fill with the
>> pattern. An SVG 1.2 draft suggested that we should treat the entire file.svg
>> as an SVG image and align the viewport to the referenced element (much like
>> <a> does, I guess). In the absence of a spec, the default behavior for all
>> UAs is to simply load file.svg as an image and ignore the fragment. We
>> didn't want to just change that arbitrarily.
>
> (especially when it was clear that some people wanted it to behave in a
> different way)

In that case, do you allow a url in element(), or can it only refer to
inline SVG?

~TJ