Re: Scope and range of styles

The SVG 1.1 text won't change no, actually what needs to be fixed is this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/styling.html#Scope

There's absolutely no point in having features in standard that nobody is
prepared to implement. This is different from having
features that UAs are prepared to implement but have not yet due to
resource constraints and it can be hard to tell as an
outside observer which is which but in this case all implementers have
agreed on the restrictions inherent in svg-as-an-image.

If all implementers agree that the standard should change then that's what
happens.

Robert.