- From: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:26:51 +0100
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
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. -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- Professional programmer and amateur artist -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- Professional programmer and amateur artist -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- For servers mangling my From and Reply-To fields, -- please send private answers to PhiLho(a)GMX.net -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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