Re: CSS WG comments on SVG 1.2

Hello Bert and the CSS WG,

On 28 nov. 04, at 23:45, Bert Bos wrote:

> 6) PROPERTIES WITH DANGEROUSLY GENERIC NAMES
>
> Several properties in SVG 1.2 (including 'enable-background',
> 'overlay', 'cache', 'static', 'snap', 'focusable', 'tooltip') have
> names that are likely to clash with future CSS extensions. Since the
> SVG-introduced properties apply only to specific SVG cases, whereas
> the CSS properties are generic, we request that the SVG property names
> be made more specific to avoid future clashes.

Although you are probably aware, the reason for this type of issue is 
that CSS doesn't offer any way to "package" property names and ensure 
avoiding clashes with other vocabularies. One way to solve the CSS WG 
issue is that these new attributes could remain XML attributes and not 
be made available too via CSS mechanisms. That is my preferred solution 
as renaming properties would complexify usage by SVG authors.

Antoine
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