- From: Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:32:20 -0500
- To: "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi, Ian- Ian Hickson | | I object to the inclusion of the <textArea> feature in SVG | Tiny 1.2. I counter-object to the idea of its removal. | It appears to be no more than a poor man's HTML, Hardly. While SVG Tiny only describes rectangular shapes for text-wrapping, it is anticipated (as you well know) that the superset of this spec, SVG Full 1.2, will allow wrapping to arbitrary shapes, a facility completely lacking in HTML+CSS. | dramatically lacking in semantics As I've stated before, HTML cannot lay claim to rich semantics. There is nothing stopping an author from using inline XML semantics (properly namespaced) inside a 'textArea', far surpassing any semantic properties HTML might have. | and presentational controls. Please explain what you mean by this. Is SVG not capable of such features as italics, bolding, underlining, and font-size? | It is already possible to achieve | any effect that <textArea> introduces, using <foreignObject> ...assuming a mixed-NS document, which is not always going to be the case, especially given SVG Tiny's stance on CSS. | and embedded content styled using CSS' rich | formatting properties. Please provide an example in HTML+CSS that will allow wrapping to an arbitrary shape, and I will concede. | Please remove the <textArea> feature from SVG Tiny 1.2. WG, please keep the <textArea> feature in SVG Tiny 1.2, and expand it to arbitrary shapes in SVG Full 1.2. Regards- Doug doug.schepers@vectoreal.com www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions.
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