Re: Input on the agenda

On Mar 18, 2009, at 12:19 , Philip Taylor wrote:
> Robin Berjon wrote:
>> I think it could be acceptable to break <style> for SVG. While  
>> <script> is commonplace, <style> is pretty rare as a) it's not in  
>> Tiny, 2) using CSS for SVG is only useful in some limited cases,  
>> and iii) external style sheets are generally preferred and are  
>> brought in with a PI.
>
> It might be nice to quantify "pretty rare".

Yes, it would be. My assessment is based on the work I did for EXI a  
few years back in which I took 1700 SVG documents from various sources  
(icons, mobile SVG, SVG-based UIs) and found just one style element  
(which, as I recall, didn't do anything useful).

> Looking at a random 300 SVG files from Wikipedia six months ago, I  
> see 3 using <style>:

So that's 1%, of a vocabulary that doesn't have vast deployment on the  
open web. I'd say that counts as rare.

> So... This is very far from conclusive evidence about anything, but  
> it does suggest that some people use <style> but they wouldn't mind  
> if it was parsed as CDATA. (It'd be nice to have a way of checking a  
> wider range of SVG content for these kinds of issues...)

Yup.

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Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 12:21:10 UTC