- From: Dean Jackson <dean@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:38:56 +1100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, Antoine Quint <ml@graougraou.com>, www-svg@w3.org
On 29 Nov 2004, at 21:18, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Antoine Quint wrote: >>> >>> 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. > > Prefixing every property with "svg-" would do that. So would prefixing the majority of the CSS properties with "html-". Half :) > >> 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. > > Personally, for many of the above properties I think that would be much > better. For example, the 'focusable' property doesn't seem like > something > you'd want to change from a stylesheet. Yeah, it seems like something we should consider. We'd still have to resolve how to style such content. Dean
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