[Fwd: Re: ISSUE-2129 (definition clarifications): Definition section is too long and needs clarifications (bbox, canvas, etc.) [Last Call: SVG 1.2 Tiny ]]

Sorry, I just replied to Doug.

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Sujet : Re: ISSUE-2129 (definition clarifications): Definition section is too long and needs clarifications (bbox, canvas, etc.) [Last Call: SVG 1.2   Tiny ]
Date : Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:15:13 +0200
De : Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@enst.fr>
Répondre à : cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr
Organisation : ENST
Pour : Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Références : <20081013170446.9FE67C6DAE@barney.w3.org> <48F4369E.2090301@enst.fr> <48F5FF6C.5060509@cisra.canon.com.au> <48F68169.10802@enst.fr> <48F6AD22.9040204@w3.org>

Doug Schepers a écrit :
> Hi, Cyril-
> 
> Cyril Concolato wrote (on 10/15/08 7:48 PM):
>>>>> Could you clarify the meaning of the following sentence especially
>>>>> for the defs element?
>>>>> "Elements which do not partake in the rendering tree (e.g. elements
>>>>> in a 'defs'  element, elements whose 'display'  is none, etc.), and
>>>>> which have no child elements that partake in the rendering tree
>>>>> (e.g. 'g'  elements with no children), shall not contribute to the
>>>>> bounding box of the parent element, but must return a bounding box
>>>>> for the sake of calculating their own geometry."
>>>>> What does the bounding box of a defs element 'must return (...) for
>>>>> the sake of calculating [its] own geometry.'?
>>>> For this comment, I don't know what edit to propose.
>>>>
>>> I think this sentence was trying to say too much towards the end. I
>>> removed "but must return a bounding box for the sake of calculating
>>> their own geometry." from the end of the sentence and started a new
>>> sentence which says:
>>> "Elements that do not contribute to the bounding box of a parent
>>> element must still return their own bounding box value when required."
>>>
>>> Does this change help clarify paragraph or is clarification of the
>>> "defs" element still required?
>> I'm not sure. The first sentence mentions that the BB is 'applicable'
>> only to elements with display other than none. So, since defs is
>> equivalent to display=none, therefore the BB should not be applicable.
>> But your last sentence seems to say that defs must return something. I
>> guess it all depends on the meaning of applicable. If not applicable
>> means bounding box = '0 0 0 0', then it's ok.
> 
> I've added an illustrative example [1], which I hope will clarify how
> the bbox results vary based on context.  This is to maximize the utility
> to authors.
> 
> Please let us know if this satisfies your concern.
This satisfies my concern and closes this issue.

Thank you.

Cyril
> 
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/coords.html#ExampleBBoxCalc
> 
> Regards-
> -Doug


-- 
Cyril Concolato
Maître de Conférences/Associate Professor
Groupe Mutimedia/Multimedia Group
Département Traitement du Signal et Images
/Dept. Signal and Image Processing
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
46 rue Barrault
75 013 Paris, France
http://tsi.enst.fr/~concolat 

-- 
Cyril Concolato
Maître de Conférences/Associate Professor
Groupe Mutimedia/Multimedia Group
Département Traitement du Signal et Images
/Dept. Signal and Image Processing
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
46 rue Barrault
75 013 Paris, France
http://tsi.enst.fr/~concolat

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