- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:15:19 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Vlad Alexander (xhtml.com) wrote: > > I noticed that Opera 9.5 can load an SVG image via the IMG element. I > think this is a wonderful thing. Is there any specification on how this > should work? For example, I noticed that Opera, for some reason, does > not scale SVG images to fit the box created by the IMG element's width > and height attributes. Here is a test page: > > http://xhtml.com/misc/svg-img.htm > > Can someone please point me to any specs on loading SVG via IMG element? On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Devi Web Development wrote: > > My understanding is that SVG should not be scaled to fit given > dimensions because scaling information is provided in the SVG itself. I > don't know about the full status of SVG in browsers, but I know that > Firefox supports some, and the Adobe plug-in is common. A full test > suite is available at http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/ A > specification for embedding SVG in XHTML can be found at > http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG/ and Mozilla provides some > documentation at > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG_In_HTML_Introduction It's not clear to me what I should say in HTML5 about this. <img> should just do whatever the image format says it should do, right? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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