- From: Dean Jackson <dean@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 03:50:10 +1100
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On 3 Nov 2004, at 02:42, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > I have a couple of additional questions for the SVG WG: > > -- When users ask for additional flowing text features, such as floats > and tables, will you add them to SVG 1.3? Let me separate the question a little. We discussed adding additional text features (for SVG 1.2 and future). We rejected them all in favour of using XHTML for such things (eg. lists). As SVG layout is not at all like CSS layout, floats are way out of scope. Then you mentioned tables. There have been many requests for grid-based layout mechanisms in SVG (for graphics and text). It *may* be considered for a future version of SVG. However, IMO the primary use case would be laying out things like UIs (eg. toolbars), not really text (although it could be used that way). In preliminary discussion of this topic the most common suggestion has been to simply allow <html:table> in SVG. Adobe's most recent SVG release does this (within a <foreignObject>). > > -- You say that SVG text is presentational and not semantic, but then > why does flowPara exist? I don't think it should. I'll be arguing that it should be removed. The other slightly semantic element is <flowLine>. The problem here is that Ian's suggested alternative used CSS, which isn't required in any SVG implementation. Any ideas? Dean
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