- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:37:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jon Ferraiolo <jon.ferraiolo@adobe.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Jon Ferraiolo wrote: > > The SVG WG coordinated with the DOM WG long ago about attribute value > normalization which might result in getAttributeNS() returning a > different string than was set via setAttributeNS(). It was decided that > SVG implementers needed to have the normalization option in order to > achieve performant implementations. For example, it is common to > implement the <path> element by reducing the 'd' attribute to numeric > data structures and toss out the original attribute string value. Hm, that's unfortunate. It means a non-SVG processor and an SVG processor will have different behaviour for core DOM calls. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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