- From: Peter Sorotokin <psorotok@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:47:49 -0800
- To: Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'Robin Berjon'" <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Cc: "'Håkon Wium Lie'" <howcome@opera.com>, www-svg@w3.org
At 01:19 PM 11/3/2004 -0500, Doug Schepers wrote: >Hi, Ian- > >Ian Hickson wrote: >| >| On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Robin Berjon wrote: >| > >| > Ever seen poetry laid out inside a shape? Ever seen ad text >| following >| > the shiny curves of the latest spacecraft? Ever seen some sombre >| > lament about the passing of time animated as it falls >| through an hourglass? >| > *That* is what it's for. It's for text when used as graphics. >| >| All three of those examples are great examplies of documents >| that need semantic markup. > >That seems like a stretch to me. What do any of those particularly need >markup for? Much less the rather poor semantics of HTML... > >Are you arguing that: > ><p>Fly me to the moon...</p> > >Has more semantics than: > ><text><textPath xlink:href='#rocketCurve'>Fly me to the >moon...</textPath></text> > >? I don't see how. Unless you're going to mark up your poetry with ><metaphor> and <simile> and <irony> tags, I don't think you're going to get >much more semantic content. Well, if you want to use <metaphor> and <smile>, you probably also should use <spacecraft> as well (not simply a drawing of spacecraft) and use something like XSLT stylesheet to transform it into the final-form SVG. Mixing <svg:path> with <metaphor> does not seem to be particularly appropriate. Peter > [snip]
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