Re: Status of connectors for SVG2

Doug Schepers:

>I understand that you're not proposing breaking changes with old syntax. 
>When I said "backwards compatibility", I meant compatibility with older 
>UAs, not with older content. I don't think it's advisable to make 
>dramatic changes to existing elements.

At least for the path d attribute this happens already in the SVG 2 draft
due to the bearing command (and several other new commands suggested
as well, but not yet present in the draft).
If such backwards incompatible changes happen at all in SVG 2, it should
have high priority to have now all relevant changes in one version, to ensure
that one can avoid backwards incompatible changes again in SVG 2.1 oder SVG 3.
Due to the low implementation progress for SVG 1.x in current viewers, I 
think, there is a lot of time until one may recommend SVG 2 anyway, therefore 
it should be no problem to add now meaningful features and wait a few years, 
until there is interest to implement some progressive SVG 2 completely
instead of having only minimalistic implemented changes in SVG 2.


Olaf

Received on Friday, 11 July 2014 11:01:46 UTC