- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:43:09 -0500
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: xsl-fo Community Group <public-ppl@w3.org>
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 11:00 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote: > On 20 January 2014 09:54, Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net> wrote: > > > XSL-FO 2.0 was following SVG in defining its color functions [2]. Chris > > Lilley came to a F2F specifically to talk about colour/color, and we > > decided to align with what SVG had. > > So Chris Lilley says it's OK... Mmm And I, because an implementation that supports SVG graphics will have a hard time with conflicting colour models. Note that when you're working with print you want different ways to specify colour than when you're designing for a screen, and video requires yet a third way, so there are good reasons to support multiple syntaxes, just as SVG and CSS do. CSS is also now aligned with SVG by the way. > >> Mixing lengths is another irregular property set. > > > > I do it quite often. From a stylesheet that I happened to have open right > > now: > > That doesn't make it right Tony? It's pretty common and the facility is designed deeply into XSL-FO. An example - page size is A4 (measured in mm), measure (line length) for copy was specified by the designer in picas, and an image that cuts into the text is 1 inch wide and two inches high. And you want to make the designer use a pocket calculator when the computer can do it just as well? > No. But one thing I would like to do for users is make it easier to use? > And in this aspect, ease of validation would make it easier to use? > "What property can I use here" is an oft heard question IMHO Unfortunately the answer is usually "pretty much any property" :-) Including, of course, custom extension properties. XSL-FO wasn't designed as an authoring vocabulary but as a rendering vocabulary; this (to me) is a strength over HTML, which can't make up its mind which it is. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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