- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:54:43 +0200
- To: "Jon Ferraiolo" <jonf@adobe.com>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
* Jon Ferraiolo wrote: >I think you will agree that just because the SVG WG breaks compatibility >with the past in one area as justification for breaking it in another. I think that once you start making changes that affect conformance you cannot reject proposals for changes that affect conformance simply be- cause they affect conformance. I would even suggest to assume that the reviewer considered this to some extend. >Regarding the changes for gradients, I was not aware that there were >incompatible changes and, if you are correct, then I would really like >to know why such incompatible changes were made, *especially* if there >is actual content that relies on the old behavior. The default values are percentages which SVG Tiny 1.2 does not support anywhere but height/width on the svg element and maybe rgb(). I've pointed this problem out a year ago in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2005Mar/0051.html Not supporting percentages is a very bad idea in cases like <stop offset=... />, but well... Here specifically the percentages are relative to the viewport, I've so far assumed that the changes were made due to performance considerations in certain implementations. I've asked in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2006Mar/0147.html to explain these changes better. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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