Re: SVG 1.2 Comment: Detailed last call comments (all chapters)

Ian Hickson wrote:
>> We have fill, stroke, filter, etc., why suddenly we cannot have overlay?
> 
> 'filter' in particular is a problem. It clashes with a property that was 
> in an older draft of CSS2, and which was implemented by IE. It basically 
> means that IE will never be able to implement SVG in HTML. (A lot of 
> legacy content uses the 'filter' property.) It also means that user agents 
> such as Mozilla and Opera have to make a decision when they implement SVG: 
> Implement SVG filters, or implement IE filters? IE filters are more widely 
> used, but SVG filters are a standard. It's not always a simple choice.

Are the IE filters so widely used? Except to implement PNG transparency 
(which is needed for IE only anyway), I doubt it.

I believe a lot of people doesn't even know they exists, a portion of 
the knowledgeable people doesn't use it (except perhaps in demo pages) 
because they are specific, so this leave a quite little user base.
But perhaps I just missed the pages where they are used.

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