Re: [svgwg] Allow transforms on textPath

• From: Amelia Bellamy-Royds via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
• Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:50:56 +0000
• To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
• Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-234348105-1469127054-sysbot+gh@w3.org>

The "strange behavior" is what you _want_ if you apply a scale 
transform to a `<textPath>` element.  I created it by scaling the 
`<text>` element.

But I do agree that it might sometimes be nice to fit text to a 
transformed path without transforming the text itself, which is why we
 should spec the Chrome/Firefox behavior.  Note that Edge currently 
behaves differently: the text glyphs don't get stretched, but they are
 stretched out along the path, proportional to the scaling factor.

Edge:
![Two text-paths, both take up the same horizontal space but the top 
one has distorted glyphs and the bottom one has spaced-out 
glyphs](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9876129/17034783/6ae1aaf4-4f41-11e6-9a64-3ac7a2422a2c.png)

Chrome:
![Two text paths, the top (stretched-out) one looks the same as Edge, 
the bottom one has regularly sized and spaced glyphs, only taking 2/3 
the horizontal width of the top 
one.](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9876129/17034842/a4e8b45e-4f41-11e6-8014-35f608e04295.png)


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