- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:39:10 +0100
- To: Steve Dickson <sdickson@savagesoftware.com>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Steve Dickson wrote: > > In the SVG spec of 2000/03/03, section 4.3 reads: > > "Elements in an SVG document fragment have an implicit drawing order, with > the first elements in the SVG document fragment getting "painted" first. > Subsequent elements are painted on top of previously painted elements." Yes. This is the well-known painters algorithm. > "For certain types of shapes, marker symbols (...) can be drawn at > selected vertices. Each marker symbol is painted as if its graphical > content were expanded into the SVG document tree just _above_ [my > emphasis added] the shape object which is using the given marker symbol > ... The fill is painted first, then the stroke, and then the marker > symbols. " Above is, as you say, succeptible to multiple interpretations. It shoul probably say "after" because then, whether one things of "after" in z-order of "after" in depth-first tree traversal order, it produces the correct rendering order. I believe that this is what was meant; we will fix this in the next draft. -- Chris
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