Re: [css-compositing] remove specific isolation behavior for SVG?

On Jun 12, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks-
> 
> On 6/12/13 7:48 AM, Dirk Schulze wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> How would you define it for SVG since it has no concept of a
>>> 'stacking context'? For HTML, you eventually end up at the
>>> 'elaborate description of stacking contexts' but there is no such
>>> thing for SVG.
>> 
>> You can add it to the SVG specification :) (And in fact we should add
>> it to the third edition of SVG 1.1 and at some point to CSS
>> directly.) However, this doesn't even matter for compositing at the
>> moment. For compositing it is necessary to say that every property
>> which creates a stacking context does also create an isolation group.
>> And all the listed properties in Compositing do create a stacking
>> context. That's it.
> 
> I seem to recall that we talked about adding a simplified stacking 
> context for SVG, along with a z-index... Cameron, what's the status on that?

It still wasn't added. I am just saying that we should define the stacking context for SVG 1.1 already. It is more of a symbolic definition there, since it doesn't change anything. SVG2 can extend it from there.

Greetings,
Dirk

> 
> Regards-
> -Doug

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