Re: CSS Animation and Transitions on SVG attributes

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Patrick Dengler <patd@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have not seen any more responses to this thread (perhaps I missed them?).
> We identified this as a high priority issue in August of 2010 and we have
> been discussing in the SVG/CSS FX task force for well over a year. We
> collectively made the resolution to address this issue with the CSS/SVG FX
> task force at TPAC in 2010; I was asked to write it up more recently and
> would like to close if this is possible.
>
> This proposal was the resolution reached by the SVG Working Group at the
> last face-to-face at the end of last year.  Many of the members of the CSS
> working group have been a part of the discussion. The same issues keep
> arising and we tend to eventually land on the same resolutions.  I ask you
> as graciously as I can that we either find new issues, choose different
> resolutions or resolve this.  I’m not married to any one direction but do
> believe after owning this for so long, that this is the right thing to do.
>
> What are the appropriate steps to reach resolution?

I am okay with the proposal as it now stands.

I'm not *super* happy with the couple of extra-short names, but
they're okay.  I think that prefixing all of the SVG properties would
be bad (because some are already unprefixed, and some new ones share
names with existing properties), and prefixing only some of them would
be similarly bad because it's inconsistent and hard to remember.

I would like, eventually, for SVG's layout model to integrate with CSS
more fully, but I'm okay with that taking time, and it in no way
blocks the current work.

I don't think it's correct, as you assert, that resolving left/top vs
x/y isn't germane to this effort.  It's very relevant, but I think
that trying to match SVG to the Positioned Layout model wouldn't work
very well.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:38:13 UTC