Re: Ambiguities in fill:url() / stroke:url() syntax

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Does it mean that we have two different behaviors on <img>, <object> and
> <iframe> on the one side and CSS Images on the other? That sounds worst.
>

No, because <img>, <object> and <iframe> don't use "url()" syntax. They're
simply irrelevant to all of this. The problem is only for users of "url()".

> (Although
> http://preciousforever.github.com/SVG-Stacker/examples/wikipedia/commons/stack/stack-demo-css-hack.htmldoes have some polyfill that uses background:url() in Firefox.) So maybe
> the compat issue isn't that bad.
>
> I would like to see a proposal first before we can continue discussing on
> it further.


I've made a few proposals here. Here's my current proposal:
When "url(...)" appears as a CSS value,
a) if the URI has no fragment identifier, treat it as an image load.
b) if the URI has a fragment identifier that contains the characters '=',
'(' or ')', treat it as an image load.
c) otherwise, treat it as an external resource reference.

And we have not done the research if ::target is the only pseudo element or
> use case for SVG fragments with influence on the painted result.
>

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Rob
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