- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:16:27 -0700
- To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@adobe.com>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:57 PM, "Rik Cabanier" <cabanier@adobe.com> wrote: > Looking at current vector artwork, 99.99% is using luminosity. That is an interesting number, where did you get this number and which vector artwork are you referring? Dirk > It's much easier to manipulate for a designer than alpha (since it's easier to visualize and since overlapping elements with alpha interact with each other) > > Rik > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:48 PM >> To: Rik Cabanier >> Cc: www-svg@w3.org >> Subject: Re: mask: luminance or alpha >> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@adobe.com> >> wrote: >>> Last week, there was a decision to have the id-less mask have ‘alpha’ >>> as the default instead of ‘luminance’ >>> >>> Can someone explain the rational for doing this again? >>> >>> It changes existing default behavior, is not what people want or what >>> products like Illustrator and InkScape currently support. >> >> The idea is that this *is* what people want. We just can't change <mask>'s >> default behavior due to legacy compat. >> >> ~TJ
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