- From: Jon Ferraiolo <jon.ferraiolo@adobe.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:37:11 -0700
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, bulia byak <buliabyak@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Bulia, Looking forward to SVG Full 1.2 and an expanded <textArea> that supports arbitrary shapes, I have some questions for you: 1) Is Inkscape primarily interested in SVG for publishing (i.e., the SVG's are view-only) or SVG for applications (i.e., the SVG presents a user interface and users enter data which is sent back to a back-end server)? I would like to have a better understanding of the workflows for which Inkscape will be using <textArea>. 2) Do you want the various SVG viewers to perform rewrapping of text on the client side, and if so, do you require that the viewers wrap text exactly as your authoring tool? There are various situations where the viewer will wrap text differently than the authoring tool: (a) the SVG viewer may not implement all features completely or correctly, (b) complicated specs such as SVG tend to have at least a few errata, so even "correct" implementations might not have integrated errata completely at any given moment in time, (c) client systems will have a different set of installed fonts, (d) not all fonts with the same name are identical (e.g., Helvetica can vary from machine to machine), (e) different users install different localization packages, (f) mathematical issues such as some viewers using fixed point arithmetic versus others using double-precision floating point, plus accumulated round-off error. (This is not a complete list.) As I remember, the SVG wrapping text rules were that if a given "word" overflows all available regions, that word is just not visible. Therefore, if viewers wrap differently than an authoring tool, there is a chance that some text might get lost. 3) Do any of your workflows involve pouring dynamically-generated text into a <textArea>, where the SVG acts as a template? Thanks. Jon Ferraiolo At 05:30 PM 4/16/2005, Chris Lilley wrote: >On Saturday, April 16, 2005, 11:49:30 AM, bulia wrote: > >bb> We already have a pretty complete implementation of flowRoot in >bb> Inkscape and we count on it as one of the major and most >bb> user-requested features in the next release. > >Nice screenshot of this at >http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.40-CVS-linux-flow-01.png > > > >-- > Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org > Chair, W3C SVG Working Group > W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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