- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 13:52:13 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org, public-media-fragment@w3.org
On 05/06/2011 11:32 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >>> And things get really interesting if the image is an SVG, where a ref >>> already means something entirely different. >> >> Presumably such refs match the identifier syntax > > Why would we presume that? > > Try loading this in your browser: > > <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> > <defs> > <pattern id="xywh=10,30,60,20" width="1" height="1"> > <rect width="100" height="100" fill="green"/> > </pattern> > </defs> > <rect width="500" height="500" fill="url(#xywh=10,30,60,20)"/> > </svg> > > Works for me in Gecko, WebKit, Presto, IE9. We would presume that because SVG requires an identifier for id attributes. Your example doesn't validate. > Basically, I think the media fragments draft is not backwards-compatible with current behavior and thus I think that using it > should require explicit opt-in. Your argument assumes that there are enough authors who *hand-write* their SVG identifiers *such that* they are invalid in a way that matches #xywh syntax, that this is a problem. I'm skeptical. (Not that I don't think there are issues with this feature. I just don't think this is one of them.) ~fantasai
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