Re: Styling of SVG elements in CSS and SVG specs

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
> On 6/04/13 2:15 AM, Dirk Schulze wrote:
>>
>> I did an experimental change of the element name styling for CSS Masking.
>> See:
>>
>>
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FXTF/raw-file/default/masking/index.html#MaskElement
>>
>> Please comment what you think about the change.
>
>
> I think the angle brackets have a couple of drawbacks.  One is that they are
> also used to indicate CSS grammar symbols (although there is a different in
> the font weight, I'm not sure this is enough).

This tends to be obvious from context, as well.

> Second is that I feel the
> angle brackets are too heavy, and distract from the flow of reading a
> sentence.

In our experience using <foo> notation in CSS specs, it doesn't seem
to be heavy or distracting at all.

> I assume you don't want to go with the SVG styling convention (still use ‘…’
> around the element name but use dark red as the text colour)?
>
> Another option would be to go with the styling used in HTML and other
> Anolis-generated specs.  That's something like <span style="font-family:
> monospace; color: orange">…</span>.  Though one thing I like about the CSS
> styling is the use of the normal, proportionally spaced font -- monospaced
> font in the middle of a sentence can also bit a bit jarring.

Please no orange. ^_^

~TJ

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