Re: [css4-images] support for SVG Paint Servers without element()

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Btw. you will run into the same problem with the 'fill' and 'stroke'
> properties. Both will take a paint server reference and a <image> value in
> SVG 2. (Resolved during the last SVG F2F.) This is why it makes more sense
> to be consistent IMO.
>

That is a big problem :-(. I'll bring it up with the SVG working group.

Apart from what I already mentioned, we apply a same-origin restriction
when loading external resource documents but not when loading images. The
latter can't be changed without breaking compat, but changing the former
may expose security issues.

Rob
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