- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:41:25 -0300
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On 4/17/05, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > > Dear Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group, > > In http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413/text.html it is > proposed that text and textArea element imply xml:space="preserved" when > they are editable. This is a poor proposal as it is guranteed to yield > in undesired side-effects. Authors would have to be careful to include > white-space in a way that does not yield in unreasonable rendering, and, > probably worse, dynamically making an element (un)editable would likely > cause strange changes to the text. To prevent this, authors would have > to use xml:space="preserve" themselves in which case this inconsistent > default is useless anyway. Please change the draft such that this re- > quirement is removed and that it is clearly pointed out why authors > might want to set xml:space="preserve". I second this. It's never a good idea to selectively override the standard expected behavior, especially if it is defined outside of SVG (as is xml:space). So please remove this requirement. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
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