- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:52:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote in message > news:Pine.LNX.4.58.0407081303320.18162@dhalsim.dreamhost.com... > > Wouldn't putting that kind of content in SVG be equivalent to putting it > > in XSL:FO, or PDF? I would have thought that kind of markup would be much > > more appropriate in a semantic markup language rather than a > > presentational language. > > Yet you then suggest a solution that uses a presentational language > (display: table-cell etc.) so I'm not exactly sure what the objection you > have is? My objection is to having the _content_ be in a presentational language. > That would be in semantic languages, SVG is a rendering language so > markup for layout is entirely appropriate, just like it's appropriate in > SVG - but with CSS being only optional for SVG user agents, we can't > rely on it. My point was only that the example given seemed inappropriate for SVG. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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