- From: ddailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:35:13 -0400
> It's not that there's no plan. It's just that the plan is more along the > lines of "we'll wait and maybe add it later" rather than "we'll add it > now", since there are workarounds and seemingly little demand. > > Please let us know if you get any input on your blog post. > The utility of dashed strokes is something I can get interested in. Observe the sparseness of the JavaScript code involved in http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/clock.svg (working in IE, FF & Opera) compared to the <canvas> solution someone posted the other day here. http://developer-stage.mozilla.org/en/docs/Canvas_tutorial:Basic_animations (about 1/4 as much code all told) and much of that is attributable to dashed strokes. I know it's comparing apples to oranges, but it may provide a bit of incentive. In terms of a not so practical use case http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/newstuff/wiggleline.svg as viewed in Opera provides a very good reason, though IE/ASV does not properly animate dashed strokes and FF doesn't do SMIL yet so you'll need Opera to see it. A ten or twelve year old java applet doing something similar can be seen here: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/java/tile/Trime.html In it the dashing is provided rather painfully through code. cheers, David
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