- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 10:58:45 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, SVG WG <w3c-svg-wg@w3.org>, Brady Duga <duga@google.com>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:19 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 05/07/2015 01:14 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: >> On 7/5/15 05:22, Koji Ishii wrote: >>> 2. Does writing-mode: vertical-rl in HTML inherits to SVG? >>> [...] >> >> >> ... I agree it might be better to avoid this, as the svg image as a >> whole does not rotate. While there may be some cases where an author >> would want the text within an svg image to respond to the document's >> writing mode, this seems unlikely to be widely useful. >> >> Perhaps we should simply add >> >> svg { writing-mode: initial; } >> >> to the UA stylesheet? Then an author who *does* want the outside >> writing-mode to apply to text within the svg can still use >> "writing-mode: inherit" to achieve this. > > > It seems to me that this is a broader problem than just writing-mode. > Should 'font-variant: small-caps' inherit into an SVG? What about > 'text-emphasis'? > > It might just make sense for the UA style sheet to include > > svg { all: unset; } > > and then make a per-property exception if necessary for some very > specific reason, e.g. > > svg { all: unset; color: inherit; } > > if we want 'color' to inherit by default. > > The place to make this change would be > * informatively in CSS Cascade Level 3 (as an example appendix) > * normatively in the appropriate SVG specs This is unlikely to be web-compatible. You also need to qualify the "svg" part significantly; if we could do this, we wouldn't want to hit nested <svg> elements, so something like "html|* > svg" would be required. ~TJ
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