- From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:14:55 +0200
- To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
> On 10/02/11 8:40 AM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> > Patrick had an idea at SVG Open on how to fix the problem of having
> > marker color match path color. This is the most often cited "bug" in
> > Inkscape since there is no natural way to have an arrowhead take the
> > color of the path. At the time I thought his idea wouldn't work but now
> > I think it may have some merit. The main change to the spec would be
> > that marker fill and stroke are evaluated at the point of use and not at
> > the point of definition.
> During the F2F as part of the discussion of the SVG Vector Effects
> specification, Chris mentioned a proposal to add a few new keywords to
> handle the issue of marker colour (and SVG Font glyph colour):
> http://www.w3.org/2011/07/29-svg-minutes.html#item02
> I feel that that is a better solution since it is explicit about where
> the computed values of these keywords comes from, rather than
> automatically changing depending on if you use them on elements inside a
> marker or not.
> Note that the keywords Chris proposed come in two varieties -- one that
> lets you select the current paint from one of the fill/stroke/color
> properties at the point of use, and one from the point of reference.
This seems good to me. The sooner we can get it adopted, the better!
Tav
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