Re: Question about forward and backward compatibility

On 14 déc. 2004, at 06:48, Jon Ferraiolo wrote:

> I am confused by your recommendation which seems inconsistent. Why do 
> you recommend an "SVG-capable plug-in" for the <embed> and <object> 
> case, but recommend the "native SVG implementation" for the SVG 
> top-level element case. Aren't these two cases of the same thing 
> (i.e., processing a standalone SVG file)? Is it because you believe 
> that animations only happen when the SVG content is embedded by a 
> wrapper HTML? My experience is that there is likely to be 
> approximately the same percentage of animations within SVG documents 
> loaded as the root document as SVG documents loaded via <embed> or 
> <object>

On second thought, you are right, this approach is more consistent. In 
fact, there wasn't much argumentation for the third point.

Antoine
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