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- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
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ISSUE-2233 (transform-syntax): adopt the syntax for CSS Transforms [Module: Transforms] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2233 Raised by: Doug Schepers On product: Module: Transforms Per http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2009JanMar/0148.html [[ * why not adopt the syntax for CSS Transforms (which was written to be as compatible as possible with SVG)? In particular, I see this: [[[ AG: I agreed to remove translateX/Y/Z and scaleX/Y/Z JF: translateX/Y is part of the CSS specification but that's just syntactic sugar ]]] While these might shortcuts look like syntactic sugar, they allow for something important - which is the ability to break a transform list into components that can manipulated individually. This is especially important when you're animating between transforms (not necessarily with CSS Animations, even JS gets the benefit). Flattening all the transform operations is a lossy process (not in the final matrix result, but you lose the list). In general I'm not sure there is benefit in minimising the syntax. What is the cost? ]]
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