Re: High-Quality Dynamic SVG Viewer

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tobias Reif wrote:

> 
> Dean Jackson wrote:
> 
> 
> >I suggest the following to resolve the issue: [...]
> >- Provide explicit wording on the relationship between well-formedness
> >  and streaming. At the moment, the spec says that you can only
> >  render a well-formed document, which means that you can't do
> >  progressive rendering (since any partially downloaded file is
> >  not well-formed). The answer is to create a temporary well-formed
> >  version of the partial download (close all open tags, etc) and
> >  then render.
> 
> 
> This does not sound good to me. Requiring the application to do 
> guesswork will introduce lots of unforeseeable behaviour, AFAICS.
> If client apps are allowed or even required to do guesswork (especially 
> at such a relevant level), I might as well have a random algorithm code 
> my SVGs :|
> 
> Perhaps it would make sense to not require ~"closing all open tags, 
> etc", but instead specify a clear, simple, and most importantly much 
> less ambiguous algorithm. Something like:

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I was just describing the general concept. Obviously the
spec would have to be much more precise, and produce
something that is always able to be replicated.

Dean

Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 06:01:38 UTC