Re: Applying SVG properties to non-SVG content

On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>> If you're talking about the element-as-background extension, I  
>> haven't written down a proposed spec for that yet. But when I do,  
>> it will also ignore clip, opacity and other effects on the  
>> ancestors of referenced elements. Is that surprising? I can't think  
>> why you'd want it any other way.
>
> I believe it might be surprising if you intended to use the feature  
> to do say reflections or thumbnails.
>
> I don't think so. Normally a reflection would be drawn in a sibling  
> element, or at least nearby in the DOM and thus likely to be clipped  
> by the same ancestor. For thumbnails you usually don't want to see  
> clipping performed by ancestors; for example you might want to show  
> thumbnails of slides that are scrolled out of view. If you want  
> clipping to be shown, you would normally just make the clipping  
> ancestor the element-as-background.
>
> Do you have a specific problematic scenario in mind?

As you say, thumbnails are probably fine.  I think this feature is not  
a good fit for reflections anyway, so I won't worry about that.

dave
(hyatt@apple.com)