- From: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:23:53 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > >... >> >> Another solution could be SVG inventing their own elements for these >> kinds of things. For example, #1 could be solved with an <svg:span> >> or <svg:p> element. Having duplicate elements in multiple namespaces >> is regarded as an antipattern, ... > > SVG has a totally different font and styling model, different kinds of > animations, filters, etc. The paragraph and span concept in SVG > wouldn't be the same thing so it's not an antipattern. You would have > to specify some kind of x/y coordinate and the width since SVG doesn't > have a flow concept so there would be nothing to size or place > against. > See also http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/flow.html
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