- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:12:40 +1100
- To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html
[1]W3C
[1] http://www.w3.org/
- DRAFT -
SVG Working Group Teleconference
20 Nov 2008
[2]Agenda
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2008OctDec/0391.html
See also: [3]IRC log
[3] http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-irc
Attendees
Present
Shepazu, heycam, anthony, NH, ChrisL
Regrets
Erik
Chair
Doug Schepers
Scribe
Cameron
Contents
* [4]Topics
1. [5]Marketing SVG
2. [6]Review of the Selectors API spec
3. [7]SVG 1.1 Errata
4. [8]Test suite
5. [9]SVG F2F
6. [10]Modules and the work ahead
* [11]Summary of Action Items
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<trackbot> Date: 20 November 2008
<shepazu> SVG 1.2 has entered PR phase (yesterday). Announcement:
[12]http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item192
[12] http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item192
<scribe> Scribe: Cameron
<scribe> ScribeNick: heycam
Marketing SVG
DS: because we're going to recommendation hopefully some time in mid
december
... we're going to make a "press release"-like press release, but
we're not going to spend the money to send it out over the wire
... since it's not likely to get picked up by news agencies in
december
... we think it would be better to have one in january
... we don't want to hold back the spec for obvious reasons
... we need some news in order to have a reason to have a press
release
... things like "going to rec"
... in this case maybe a good press release would be "last month we
went to rec and we have gotten these other standards bodies - MAE,
JIS, ITU - who are interested in ratifying svg as part of their
standards as well"
... to show wider support for svg
... thoughts on delaying a press release until jan/feb?
CL: if we have to do that, then we might put out an improved test
suite, since we've only snapshotted it
... plus more implementation report
... that'd be (faintly) newsworthy
... we'd've demonstrated it's interoperable
DS: might be good to pull in the results from other browsers, too
... e.g. chrome, safari, firefox
... we'd prepare all the things required for a press release
CL: but it'd get faxed or whatever
NH: i think that's not a problem for ikivo, but i'll check with
marketing
<ChrisL> so there would be the web version, for going to rec; and a
newswire update on it, in january
AG: fujisawa-san will have to ask his marketing people
DS: please get back to me about that, and with testimonials
... we'll reuse those testimonials in the actual press release
... over the next few weeks i'll be sending ideas to the list and
inviting feedback on testimonials, which we can talk about later
Review of the Selectors API spec
[13]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Nov/0057.html
[13] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Nov/0057.html
DS: the thing erik noted was they've removed support for selecting
on namespace
... this means if you have mixed svg/xhtml stuff, you wouldn't be
able to select only on svg:a
CL: given that css wg has identified css namespaces as a stable
spec, i think we could argue on that basis that it should be
supported
DS: we can't ignore the fact that namespaces exist
... we should also review the spec for anything else
CL: someone to do the review?
<scribe> ACTION: Erik to review the selectors-api LCWD [recorded in
[14]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2347 - Review the selectors-api LCWD [on
Erik Dahlström - due 2008-11-27].
<scribe> ACTION: Doug to review the selectors-api LCWD [recorded in
[15]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action02]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2348 - Review the selectors-api LCWD [on
Doug Schepers - due 2008-11-27].
<scribe> ACTION: Cameron and Doug to test simultaneous actions
[recorded in
[16]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action03]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2349 - And Doug to test simultaneous
actions [on Cameron McCormack - due 2008-11-27].
trackbot, close ACTION-2349
<trackbot> ACTION-2349 And Doug to test simultaneous actions closed
AG: when should comments be in by?
DS: december 12
<scribe> ACTION: Anthony to review the selectors-api LCWD [recorded
in [17]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action04]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2350 - Review the selectors-api LCWD [on
Anthony Grasso - due 2008-11-27].
SVG 1.1 Errata
AG: due to tiny i haven't done much on errata lately
... i've started integrating the proposed errata into the 1.1 spec
<anthony> - Linking in a text environment
<anthony> - feFlood in attribute
<anthony> - Filter subregion
<anthony> - Cleaning up the wording of the underlying value being
the identity transform
<anthony> - Start and end incorrectly described for text
<anthony> - Typo 'effect' instead of 'affect'
<anthony> - Incorrect reference to solidColor element
<anthony> - Capturing pointer-events with a zero opacity mask
AG: these are the ones that have been integrated
DS: how many more are there?
<anthony>
[18]http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Group/repository/errata/errata.xm
l
[18] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Group/repository/errata/errata.xml
CL: we should publish new errata with any new ones, leave it for a
bit, then publish a 2ed of 1.1 that includes all the errata we have
to date
AG: there's been a link from the 1.1F spec to the errata for a while
<anthony> [19]http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
[19] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
AG: there are still 14 errata we need to go over, draft ones
CL: we need to get the draft ones up to proposed
DS: how about next tuesday we start going over these draft errata
CM: some of these errata are just placeholders and haven't been done
yet
AG: this document is in the old repo, we should move it over to the
new one
... the errata document covers all specs, so i'll have to pull the
bits out that are related to 1.1F
<scribe> ACTION: Anthony to extract out the 1.1F errata items and
add them to the public repo [recorded in
[20]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action05]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2351 - Extract out the 1.1F errata items
and add them to the public repo [on Anthony Grasso - due
2008-11-27].
Test suite
CL: we can package up what we have (that we used for the CR period)
and that's the latest release
... or we can sit back a bit and figure out which of the drafts we
can make work and push those forward
... we've said "here's a beta, here's a beta" so it's probably good
to publish something final with what we've used for testing
implementations
NH: we found some minor errors in the tests
... what should we do with these?
CL: raise an issue on each one and we'll discuss it
DS: we should look at an improved test harness
CL: i'd be interested to see that
... the existing one [MWI one] assumes that html forms are available
DS: we can make an svg framework
NH: that'd be good i think
DS: might need changes to the tests themselves
CL: given that the forms part is just for reporting test failure,
you could postURL() and some scripts to do this
DS: or an <a>
... so we'd need something to transform the tests into this
framework
... we should have criteria for making tests incredibly obvious for
when a test doesn't pass
... like e.g., if at all possible, the background of the test should
be red if it does not pass
AG: in some cases this can't be done
DS: but whereever possible
... if not, then do whatever needs to be done
... so many of our tests are visual
... sometimes dr olaf has made tests where something is a certain
shape/dimensions and red, and overlap a green one with that
AG: so using red as an indication for failure
... i think it's a good idea
CM: i don't think it's a huge deal to require that the tester can
distinguish red from green
... i like the idea of automating test criteria checking and making
tests report this via a colour
CL: i'd be worried about making existing tests require scripting
... for example a simple test for bold text, you'd need to script to
look through the dom etc.
DS: but for those tests already using scripting we can take
advantage of this fact
... for tests that need a reference image, instead of making a
snapshot of the entire test, we should include an image within the
test itself to show what something should look like
NH: i'd like explanatory text in the slide itself
DS: so yes we should write some guidelines, and use these as part of
judging whether these tests are added to the test suite
... some tests will have to be really complicated, but having
smaller tests would also be good
CL: if you have smaller tests you have more of them, which might be
a disadvantage
... a test should say first what it's testing, then whether it
passes, then it should give all the details of who it's doing the
testing
DS: i agree, but would put the pass criteria first
AG: in the template there should be a spot to fill in the pass
criteria
DS: that's a good idea
... we should also include links to the spec that describe what's
being tested
AG: the xslt for generating the test suite could easily pull out
fields like this
DS: this'd also help when judging whether the test is good or not
<shepazu> ...and for test coverage
DS: what was svggen/ for?
CL: it has test files stripped from non-SVG namespace
... there were many issues with CVS revisions in the test slides
... we should make the script not generate the svggen/, and make the
harness not refer to svggen/
<scribe> ACTION: Erik to get rid of svggen/ [recorded in
[21]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action06]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2352 - Get rid of svggen/ [on Erik
Dahlström - due 2008-11-27].
DS: in france, we discussed having a test suite generator
... allowing people to upload svg files and it would generate a test
based on the template and that uploaded document
AG: some sort of user form you'd fill out, and fill in the fields,
and for the test case content just paste in the svg into a form
field
DS: and be able to upload an image
CL: why do we want to do this?
DS: it solves the problem of inconsistency in test files
... this'd be a simple additional way to make tests, and for the
public to submit tests
AG: public wouldn't necessarily know the template
DS: giving them (or me) fields to fill out, makes me more inclined
to make a test
... might not be the preferred way for everyone to make tests, but
for some it will
... we know that these tests will conform to the template
AG: from my pov i think it's a good idea
DS: the reason you would want to base64 included images is that you
won't lose external resources
AG: for some cases we'll still need external resources
CL: might make it harder to edit embedded base64 resources
... but it also helps the issue of editing an external resource and
not knowing the implications for all tests that refer to it
DS: i'll mock it up and send it to the list
SVG F2F
CL: for each person who's a team contact, they get to go to one f2f
meeting per year
DS: and this is retroactive, so we've already had ours
CL: so we have zero left until the middle of next year
<ChrisL4> although, if a f2f is held local to a w3c tem person they
do get to go as there is no flight/hotel . So doug could have one in
RTP for example or i could do one in France
CL: it is feasible for me to dial in to australia for 8 hours
AG: i wanted to know how many people are attending
... could we get the wbs form up?
... 16-20 february
DS: in the worst case chris and i can dial in
AG: i'm looking into quotes at the moment
... that's 19th jan, and erik said he'd prefer to have it later (in
feb)
<scribe> ACTION: Doug to put up the wbs form for the Sydney F2F
[recorded in
[22]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action07]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2353 - Put up the wbs form for the Sydney
F2F [on Doug Schepers - due 2008-11-27].
<anthony>
[23]http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2009/pmwiki.php/Main/CFP)
[23] http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2009/pmwiki.php/Main/CFP)
DS: others can also sponsor our travel, but i doubt that would be
common
Modules and the work ahead
DS: after discussions with a number of people, i think our most
stable choice going forward is to assume that we are working in the
way we thought we were going to be working
... that is, working on modules rather than a monolithic spec
... there are some challenges to this, but we don't want to abandon
1.2T completely, as it doesn't send good signals about maturity
... one problem is figuring out where to put stuff that is common to
all modules
... i think rather than coming up with some elaborate plan where it
gets pulled in from some place, we can simply coordinate on the
issues (between the different module editors)
CM: yes i think we should try doing that first, before solving it
technologically
CL: currently there's a blank directory that you copy to start
writing a module, is that still what we should do?
DS: i've been copying one of the old modules and checking it in
under the new name
... put in a new .conf file if there's not one already
... svg tiny/core need a more complicated make system than most of
the modules
... since they'll likely just be single page
AG: maybe compositing would be more than one
CM: i haven't made the changes to the build script to handle single
pages
DS: we can edit the master files until the scripts have been updated
to handle modules
RESOLUTION: We'll stick with the current plan of having modules that
work on top of 1.2T (with the goal that 1.2T + modules would have
all the functionality of 1.1)
DS: we want to make it clear that SVG 1.2 Tiny is stable and future
compatible regardless of what other work we do
CL: i agree
<shepazu> NH to have torkel email Doug about MAE
<shepazu> ACTION: NH to have torkel email Doug about MAE [recorded
in [24]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action08]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-2354 - Have torkel email Doug about MAE
[on Niklas Hagelroth - due 2008-11-27].
Summary of Action Items
[NEW] ACTION: Anthony to extract out the 1.1F errata items and add
them to the public repo [recorded in
[25]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action05]
[NEW] ACTION: Anthony to review the selectors-api LCWD [recorded in
[26]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: Cameron and Doug to test simultaneous actions
[recorded in
[27]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action03]
[NEW] ACTION: Doug to put up the wbs form for the Sydney F2F
[recorded in
[28]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action07]
[NEW] ACTION: Doug to review the selectors-api LCWD [recorded in
[29]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: Erik to get rid of svggen/ [recorded in
[30]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action06]
[NEW] ACTION: Erik to review the selectors-api LCWD [recorded in
[31]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: NH to have torkel email Doug about MAE [recorded in
[32]http://www.w3.org/2008/11/20-svg-minutes.html#action08]
[End of minutes]
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