Re: Canvas Test Submission approval/feedback request

On 10/05/2010 04:17 PM, Kris Krueger wrote:
> It's quite reasonable to expect that an img tag supports svg.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/conform.html#ConformingSVGViewers
>
>  If the user agent includes an HTML or XHTML viewing capability or
> can apply CSS/XSL styling properties to XML documents, then a
> Conforming SVG Viewer must support resources of MIME type
> "image/svg+xml" wherever raster image external resources can be used,
> such as in the HTML or XHTML 'img' element and in CSS/XSL properties
> that can refer to raster image resources (e.g., 'background-image').

Strictly speaking, that seems to be a conformance criterion of SVG 1.1, 
not of HTML. Therefore the SVG testsuite would be the right place to 
test it. As far as I can tell HTML 5 does not require SVG support and 
the references to SVG are to SVG 1.2 Tiny. Unless I am overlooking 
something, SVG 1.2 Tiny omits the conformance criterion that you mention.

As a practical matter it may sometimes be necessary to go beyond the 
letter of the spec where it does not require support for specific 
formats e.g. it is hard to test video without assuming some set of 
possible codecs. It is unclear that this is such a case.

Received on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:47:53 UTC