- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:57:57 +0100
- To: "Doug Schepers" <doug@schepers.cc>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 2:43:59 AM, Doug wrote: DS> Hi, Jean-Claude- DS> | Does display="none" have an influence on the rendering of the audio DS> | element ? As display="none" does not influence the execution of the DS> | animate* elements, an explicit mention about this would be welcome. DS> | DS> | It may be necessary to introduce the distinction between aural DS> | rendering and visual rendering in the SVG spec which only talks of the DS> | "rendering tree" today. The term "rendering" may need to be defined. DS> That's an interesting use case. Personally, I think there should be fine DS> control over the audio-rendering, but for the present, I think that this DS> case is covered by the distinctions between "display='none'" (which DS> effectively removes the element from the active DOM, and thus should be DS> silent) and "visibility='visible'" and "opacity='0'" (which should keep the DS> element, but stop it from being visible, though visibility does seem to DS> toggle the element's ability to register events). DS> If this is reasonable, it should be made explicit in the Spec, so DS> implementors are consistent. It seems reasonable to me, and is consistent with how display vs visibility/opacity is dealt with in general. I agree though that there can be a tendency to read 'rendering tree' as 'visual rendering tree' so that needs to be clarified in the spec. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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