Re: Why a stroke on top of a fill?

On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:15:17 +0200, you wrote:

>> Is somebody able to explain why the overlapping method is used, either 
>> for intuitive reasons or technical reasons? Or is it just an arbitrary 
>> choice by those who write the standards?

...

>>     What do you think? Should I simplify my code and just draw one over the
>>     other? Or should the standard be changed, and Inkscape and other
>>     renderers do what I did?

I won't speculate on whether it's "right" or not, but it is the way it's
been done since time immemorial (that is, since the 1980's). I believe
it started with PostScript, and continued with the Windows GDI. It would
certainly cause confusion if SVG were to behave differently.

-Steve Schafer

Received on Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:52:16 UTC