Re: Canvas and Interactivity

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> Yes, there’s a proposal to simplify these SVG DOM accessors in SVG 2.0:
>
>  http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2044
>
> We discussed whether it would be possible to drop the existing animVal/
> baseVal interfaces for something new, but there’s likely too much
> content that uses it now.  The above proposal would work on existing
> SVGAnimatedLength etc. objects.
>

The problem with that proposal is that you can do rect.x = 20 but you can't
do rect2.x = rect.x + 5. Not being able to read the value you put in is
quite disconcerting.

Rob
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own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
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