percentage values

• From: Alex Fritze <alex@croczilla.com>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:19:16 +0100
• To: www-svg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <40FE2704.80600@croczilla.com>

Hi,

It says in the specs:

http://www.croczilla.com/~alex/reference/SVG/REC-SVG11-20030114/coords.html#Units <http://www.croczilla.com/%7Ealex/reference/SVG/REC-SVG11-20030114/coords.html#Units>:
For percentage values that are defined to be relative to the size of viewport:

    * For any x-coordinate value or width value expressed as a percentage of the
viewport, the value to use is the specified percentage of the actual-width in
user units for the nearest containing viewport, where actual-width is the width
dimension of the viewport element WITHIN THE USER COORDINATE SYSTEM for the
viewport element.

... and similarly for y-coordinates.

Is it really the intention of the specs to have lengths be relative to 
the viewport size? It seems to make more sense to have them relative to 
the viewbox.

Alex

Received on Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:19:35 UTC