Re: Feature Request: markerPaint

Jeff,

currentColor is inherited from its ancestors, in this case the marker, defs
and outer svg elements where it isn't set, not its caller.

Robert.

On 9 February 2010 13:28, Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> Indeed, currentColor seems like it would meet part of the need:
>
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
>  <defs>
>  <marker refX="2" orient="auto" markerHeight="5" markerWidth="5"
> markerUnits="strokeWidth" refY="5" id="arrow" viewBox="0 0 10 10">
>   <path fill="currentColor" d="m10,0l-10,5l10,5l-5,-5l5,-5z"/>
>  </marker>
>  </defs>
>  <line marker-start="url(#arrow)" style="color:red" stroke-width="5"
> stroke="red" y2="240" x2="293" y1="131" x1="123"/>
> </svg>
>
> Should this give me a red marker?  I could not get any browser to do
> this, maybe it's a support thing?
>
> It seems that currentColor would also not address gradients, unless
> style="color:url(#linearGradient1234)" is allowed.  Is it?   Didn't
> seem to work for me.
>
> On the other hand, my own proposal doesn't really address how the
> gradient should be painted in the marker w.r.t in the
> objectBoundingBox case.  I know what that should intuitively look
> like, I just don't know how to specify it.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Robert Longson <longsonr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Can you get what you want with currentColor?
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#currentcolor
> >
> > I believe display:marker was introduced as a value in CSS 2 but did not
> make
> > it to CSS 2.1 because of lacking browser support. I guess it should be
> > removed from the SVG specification.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Robert.
> >
>