Re: [css-transforms][svg11] Effect of perspective and 3D transform on SVG bounding box

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> I assume you are referencing the following text [1]:
>
> ""
> multiply the accumulated matrix with the perspective matrix on the
> element’s containing block (if any). That containing block is not
> necessarily a member of the 3D rendering context.
> ""
>
> Even if the term "containing block" is misleading, it indeed suggests that
> the perspective matrix (perspective projection matrix) from one of the
> ancestors establishing a 3D context is taken into account.
>

Yeah, for SVG I'm assuming that the "containing block" here  is the parent
SVG element. We could potentially alter that decision.

To which box do implementations resolve percentage values for 'perspective'
> in HTML? Still to the value returned by getClientRects() /
> getBoundingClientRect() ? Does getBoundingClientRect() include any
> transforms from children? IIRC it doesn't even if CSS Transforms still
> says[2]:
>
> ""
> Transforms affect the results of the Element Interface extensions
> getClientRects() and getBoundingClientRect()
> ""
>
> which would naturally just be the case for SVG where getClientRects()
> returns the object bounding box.
>

For HTML percentage values resolve relative to the border-box which is
unaffected by the layout of any children. That's the key difference between
HTML and SVG here.

I would like to understand what implementations do on HTML before we
> resolve on SVG. We might even consider that perspective is not included in
> the SVG definition of object bounding box then.
>

That would probably be weird for authors using the SVG bounding box in
other contexts.

One way to fix this would be to say that for SVG elements with 3D
transforms, the perspective matrix is taken from the outermost SVG element,
whose perspective-origin values are resolved relative to its CSS
border-box. I wonder if that would be too restrictive.

Rob
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