- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:56:35 +0000
- To: "Doug Schepers" <doug@schepers.cc>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
Doug, thanks for that, but it isn't clear why this is considered a "painting enhancement" this didn't jump out as obvious, as I searched before asking. do you have a rational explanation? regards Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.co.uk "It's easy to use" irc://freenode/accessibility On 9 Nov 2004, at 17:48, Doug Schepers wrote: The 1.2 draft pretty clearly says: "11.12 Increased switch availability SVG 1.2 allows the switch element as a child of any element." http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/painting.html#switch-anywhere Regards- Doug Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: | | Chris, | | Would it be possible to extend the use of switch to title and desc? | this would have some significant internationalisation | benefits in respect of Accessibility. | | the 1.1 spec allows for switch in the case of text: | http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/i18n.html#I18nTextSubstitution | (an alternative formate might be as used in metadata: <title | xml:lang="es"> or similar, though this may not avoid the use | of a switch method.) | | a workaround demonstration is available here: | http://www.peepo.co.uk/launch/index.svg | for various reasons this currently only works in asv afaik. | eg title text is displayed in a tooltip, or label using the | OS language if available, it currently defaults to English. | | my apologies if: | this has already been dealt with elsewhere, I have not found | a reference to any changes in the draft. | or if this is too fundamental a change to be adopted for the | 1.2 draft. | | regards | | Jonathan Chetwynd | http://www.peepo.co.uk "It's easy to use" | irc://freenode/accessibility | | | | | |
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