Re: unit accessors from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-02-06 (public-svg-wg@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:20:22 -0700
To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Cc: "public-svg-wg@w3.org" <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDBGxa-exg3P-siHymD8biN0WwnFvEKdKc_AFwxEH4Hy5w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
> In doing ACTION-3414, I've added unit accessors to SVGAnimatedLength, so
> that you can now do:
>
>   rectElement.x.px = 20;

Nice.

> I've also added these to SVGAnimatedLengthList, where they reflect the first
> SVGLength in the base value list.  This is so that
>
>   textElement.x.px = 20;
>
> will also work.

Okay.

> One issue: should we have one for percentages, and if so, what should it be
> named?

Let me think on this before you add it - iirc, when CSS adds the same,
it'll need some slightly tricky stuff to make percentages (and other
things that are late-resolved) work correctly, so we should try to be
consistent.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 15:21:13 UTC