- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:03:29 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
* Chris Lilley wrote: >BH> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413/struct.html does >BH> not seem to include adequate requirements for vendor-specific >BH> presentation attributes even though these apparently may be defined > >We are unable to discover anywhere in the specification that allows a >custom, vendor-specific property to be defined. Are presentation attributes and properties the same thing? If not your response seems a bit odd. >BH> and implemented in conforming implementations. Please change the >BH> draft such that either this is not allowed (e.g., only "attributes" >BH> not "properties" may be used for extensions) > >This is the current situation. Furthermore, such attributes must be >qualified, if they are on an element which is in the SVG namespace. So, >we believe the specification to already be clear in this regard. > >BH> or such that it is >BH> required that such properties must conform to >BH> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q4 > >Although interesting, and perhaps something to consider for a future >specification, such a method would require a means to declare: > >- that the attribute is in fact a property >- whether it is inheritable or not >- the value space >- use of percentages >- computed value So you are saying that it is neither possible nor allowed to come up with presentation attributes like a:adobe-knockout and corresponding properties like adobe-knockout, and that this is obvious from the current draft. I don't see evidence for any of that, so this does not address my concern at all. -- 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/
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