Re: <animateMotion> specification clarification

Alex Danilo:
> Something for the WG to argue. I'd say child <svg>'s should be transformable since
> that is far more likely to be useful to content authors. You could use an <image> and
> reference the child SVG that way and it would transform, so the restriction on <svg>
> should never be needed since you can rotate it too.
> 
> So if you can apply current scale, translation and current rotation to the root SVG
> via the DOM there doesn't seem to be a good argument to limit the transform for
> child <svg> does it?

Agreed.  I sometimes find myself adding an extra <g> as a parent of an
<svg> element (which I want due to setting up a viewport so I can use
percentages) just so I can transform it.  It seems unnecessary to me.

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Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:42:48 UTC