- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:50:38 +0200
- To: "Johnston, John" <Johnstjo@smeco.com>
- CC: "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org>
On Monday, July 14, 2003, 3:27:33 PM, John wrote: JJ> Do HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.0 support SVGs as background images? HTML says nothing about user agents, it only defines a content type. CSS does not specify any particular image types that must be supported. SVG does specify image types that must be supported; further, it says that: >> If the user agent includes an HTML or XHTML viewing capability or >> can apply CSS/XSL styling properties to XML documents, then a >> Conforming SVG Viewer must support resources of MIME type >> "image/svg+xml" wherever raster image external resources can be >> used, such as in the HTML or XHTML 'img' element and in CSS/XSL >> properties that can refer to raster image resources (e.g., >> 'background-image'). http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/conform.html#ConformingSVGViewers -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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