Re: SVG cloning elements from HTML5

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:10:53 -0700
• To: "Smailus, Thomas O" <Thomas.O.Smailus@boeing.com>
• Cc: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDehYXE2wYouMkop1Jze7rO6vkF3WOyK7TgA1o_rXNpJQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Smailus, Thomas O
<Thomas.O.Smailus@boeing.com> wrote:
> I'd remind to keep in mind that there may well be SVG documents that are NOT on the publicly available internet that one needs to also consider when making a standard.  Just because you cannot access the svg file via a public URL doesn’t mean it has no merit.

That's relevant when you're considering *removing* a feature that has
been in browsers but which you think is very low use.  It's not
relevant when talking about a feature that has never been implemented,
because obviously no page intended to be displayed in a browser would
be using that feature.  (Outside of some weird degenerate cases.)

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:11:41 UTC