- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:51:41 -0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
"David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:200411070914.iA79Eos01911@djwhome.demon.co.uk... > >> We want the transformation from semantic to presentational to happen at >> the >> latest possible level, client-side SVG is that level - hence the need for >> a >> known text-wrapping algorithm. > > You don't need a known transformation for that. You only need a known > transformation if you have already applied the transformation and checked > it visually at the authoring side. There is no authoring side, the transformation is done in the client, this is so that we can deliver semantic mark-up to the client, however this prevents us from pre-computing the rendering. > If you completely delegate to the > client, you shouldn't care about the details of the rendering. That would appear to be an argument for no SVG at all, the reasons for a mark-up language for graphics is because it's more efficient on a number of different levels, and can have semantic and accessibility information tied into it. We do care about details of the rendering, that's why we're using a final form graphics language, but that does require consistency. Jim.
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