ISSUE-2121 (elliptical arc ref): Elliptical arcs still referred to in minimize section [MINIMIZE] [Last Call: SVG 1.2 Tiny ]

ISSUE-2121 (elliptical arc ref): Elliptical arcs still referred to in minimize section [MINIMIZE] [Last Call: SVG 1.2 Tiny ]

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2121

Raised by: Doug Schepers
On product: Last Call: SVG 1.2 Tiny 

Helder Magalhães
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Oct/0107.html>:
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8. Elliptical arcs still referred to in minimize section [MINIMIZE]

Current wording:

SVG's path data definition was defined to produce a compact data
stream for vector graphics data: all commands are one character in
length; relative coordinates are available; separator characters do
not have to be supplied when tokens can be identified implicitly;
smooth curve formulations are available (cubic Béziers, quadratic
Béziers and elliptical arcs) to prevent the need to tessellate into
polylines; and shortcut formulations exist for common forms of cubic
Bézier segments, quadratic Bézier segments, and horizontal and
vertical straight line segments so that the minimum number of
coordinates need to be specified.

But arcs aren't available in this particular profile. Suggestion is to
remove this particular item resulting in:

SVG's path data definition was defined to produce a compact data
stream for vector graphics data: all commands are one character in
length; relative coordinates are available; separator characters do
not have to be supplied when tokens can be identified implicitly;
smooth curve formulations are available (cubic Béziers and quadratic
Béziers) to prevent the need to tessellate into polylines; and
shortcut formulations exist for common forms of cubic Bézier segments,
quadratic Bézier segments, and horizontal and vertical straight line
segments so that the minimum number of coordinates need to be
specified.

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Received on Monday, 13 October 2008 16:10:25 UTC