- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:28:06 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org, tcpaiva@gmail.com
Hello, currently one can test this feature with Opera and see, how it behaves, especially with the interesting case with width or height given in percentage (or em, ex etc) - what is typically not available with more often interpreted image formats like PNG, JFIF/JPEG, GIF. For other browsers indeed the behaviour is currently not very convenient for authors. I think, typically another background-image for the same element with lower specifity is ignored too, if the SVG cannot be interpreted. Of course this problem remains anyway for older browsers even if another behaviour will be specified from the CSS-WG and applies for other image formats too, if they are not interpreted (does any viewer interprete a flash-image as background? or a PDF or EPS? - never tried). It remains the recommended option to provide at least a useful background color for older browsers or browser versions. Doing this, one can already provide an SVG as background image today without any problems. Advanced viewers will show it, older just the background color. Olaf
Received on Saturday, 17 October 2009 10:55:15 UTC