On Wed, 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? > That's one of the problems. If an element with z-index creates a stacking context and it's in another element with a transform which also creates one, it will most likely not do what you want.
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