Robin Berjon wrote: > Thomas DeWeese wrote: > >> This is a feature that has been in a specification and >> implemented by viewers for over 4 years. I think deprecation >> needs to be reserved for features that introduce real >> technical issues, not things that someone finds to be a >> minor nuisance to implement. > > If it were just this method I would agree (or I wouldn't mind) but the > whole SVG DOM could imho do with some heavy-duty surgery. Then do it in a version of the spec that doesn't try to be "upward compatible". BTW when I looked at the implementation in Batik I noticed a feature of this method, it allows for searching of disconnected subtrees (which could have duplicate id's, since they aren't in the document).Received on Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:32:10 GMT
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