On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Jon Ferraiolo wrote: >Michael, >I'll take a stab at responding to your comments: > >At 05:07 PM 8/6/99 +0200, Michael Gould wrote: >>Some suggestions/questions interesting for the GI (geographical >>information) community: That would include me, then. <snip> >>3. It would be nice if paths could have "Area" and "Length" read-only >>properties. > >Does "Area" mean "bounding box"? That is, the extent in X and Y for the >geometry of the path? Exclusive of stroke width? To us, area is the area inside a shape - in SVG terminology, the area inside a closed path measured in the user coordinate system. >What do you mean by "Length"? Distance along the path in the current user >coordinate system? Right. <snip> >>8. Also nice would be fixed-size bitmaps, for small icons which we do not >>wish to change as window size (or zoom) increases. An absolute point or >>align/valign could be specified. > >This can be done via clever construction of the document and its various ><g> elements and the order of transform= attributes. <snip> Would you like to expand on that? I thought I could make fixed-size bitmaps by saying e.g. <image href="example.png" x=12 y=45 width="8px" height="8px">. Is this not the case? -- Any opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of Laser-Scan.Received on Monday, 9 August 1999 06:31:02 UTC
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