- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:45:53 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org, public-fx@w3.org
... >Yes, the measurements are along the path. >However, that still doesn't specify what percentages are relative to. >~fantasai Percentage is relative to the viewport and not related to the length of the path, therefore typically not very useful. The intended purpose for pathLength is to give authors a chance to provide their result for pathLength calculation to ensure predictable visual results for presentation. For example if they have a result of '10000' and provide a dash-pattern of 10,10. Now a user-agent has a result of '11000' for the pathLength. Instead of using the noted '10,10' this user agent uses the adjusted pattern '11,11' to get the visual effect intended by the author. If another user-agent gets the result '9000' it adjusts the pattern to '9,9'. The only simple chance to get some notation of the pattern relative to the pathLength is to 'abuse' this correction mechanism by setting pathLength intentionally on a simple, but wrong value like '100'. Could be pretty helpful for authors to be able to provide a specific unit for this like 'plf' for 'pathLength fraction'. Olaf
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