Re: agenda, 8 August 2013 SVG WG telcon

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger
<schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I am getting some concerns elsewhere in IBM from original SVG working
> group members about moving SVG attributes to lower case and it breaking
> older versions of SVG. How serious do and other members think this is
> given that a convergence with HTML should also mean adopting elements like
> the <a> element?

How could it "[break] older versions of SVG"?  There's no conflicts
created by the lowercasing, and what it really means is that attribute
and elements are case-folded into a canonical lowercase, like HTML
does.  You can still write your attributes in camelCase if you'd like;
it's not an error.

~TYJ

Received on Friday, 16 August 2013 18:06:14 UTC