Re: SVG12: height/width defaults

* Craig Northway wrote:
>>  From http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413/coords.html
>>section 7.13
>>
>>[...]
>>  SVG must specify how to calculate some intrinsic sizing properties to
>>  enable inclusion within other languages. The intrinsic width and
>>  height of the viewport of SVG content is determined from the width and
>>  height attributes. If these are not present the default values of 100%
>>  should be used.
>>[...]
>>
>>This suggests there may be valid reasons to behave differently. This
>>is not the case, in the SVG processing model the attributes are always
>>"present" as they are either specified or defaulted. Please change the
>>draft such that it does not mislead about this requirement.
>>  
>>
>This was just an editorial mistake. The specification has been changed 
>to read:
>
>"If these are not specified the default values of 100% should be used."

This does not satisfy me, the SHOULD implies that there are probably
circumstances where different behavior is acceptable, I do not think
there are such circumstances and if there are, these need to be noted
in the definition of the attributes.
-- 
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ 

Received on Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:50:59 UTC