Re: SMIL section of state-of-the-art document done

On 21-Nov-2008, at 01:07 , Dave Singer wrote:

>
> At 13:31  +0100 27/10/08, Jack Jansen wrote:
>> There's a problem with 4-tuples for rectangles (that I've already  
>> touched upon in the piece of text) and that is that sometimes it's  
>> intended to be x,y,w,h and sometimes it's l,t,r,b (or x1,y1,x2,y2  
>> which is usually the same).
>
> there are plenty of systems that use TLBR (top left bottom right) as  
> well.  I'd say that using a 4-tuple without explicitly tagging which  
> is which might be dangerous!

Sigh:-)

So, we should indeed somehow tag our rectangles, i.e.  
xxxx#xywh=100,100,10,10 as opposed to xxxx#rect=100,100,10,10


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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma  
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