RE: [SVGMobile12] SVGT12-207: <textArea> redundant with HTML

Hi, Ian-

Ian Hickson
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| I object to the inclusion of the <textArea> feature in SVG 
| Tiny 1.2.

I counter-object to the idea of its removal.


| It appears to be no more than a poor man's HTML, 

Hardly. While SVG Tiny only describes rectangular shapes for text-wrapping,
it is anticipated (as you well know) that the superset of this spec, SVG
Full 1.2, will allow wrapping to arbitrary shapes, a facility completely
lacking in HTML+CSS. 


| dramatically lacking in semantics

As I've stated before, HTML cannot lay claim to rich semantics. There is
nothing stopping an author from using inline XML semantics (properly
namespaced) inside a 'textArea', far surpassing any semantic properties HTML
might have.
 
 
|  and presentational controls. 

Please explain what you mean by this. Is SVG not capable of such features as
italics, bolding, underlining, and font-size? 


| It is already possible to achieve 
| any effect that <textArea> introduces, using <foreignObject> 

...assuming a mixed-NS document, which is not always going to be the case,
especially given SVG Tiny's stance on CSS.


| and embedded content styled using CSS' rich 
| formatting properties.

Please provide an example in HTML+CSS that will allow wrapping to an
arbitrary shape, and I will concede.


| Please remove the <textArea> feature from SVG Tiny 1.2.

WG, please keep the <textArea> feature in SVG Tiny 1.2, and expand it to
arbitrary shapes in SVG Full 1.2.


Regards-
Doug

doug.schepers@vectoreal.com
www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions.

Received on Thursday, 29 December 2005 08:32:35 UTC