- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:53:58 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 9:08:01 PM, Boris wrote: BZ> I'm not quite sure what the purpose of some of this chapter is. We had several requests to cover some background and explain concepts. We were also asked to have some "why should I care" motivating material early on. This chapter attempts to do that. BZ> I'm assuming it's informative, not normative? If so, that should BZ> perhaps be made clearer. Yes - we have added an explicit comment to that effect at the start of the chapter. BZ> I'm also not sure that statements like "The combination of SVG and BZ> SMIL leads to interesting, time based, graphically rich BZ> presentations" or "SVG is a good, general-purpose component for any BZ> multi-namespace grammar that needs to use graphics" really have a BZ> place in an SVG _specification_ (as opposed to SVG promotional BZ> literature). Apparently some people like terse specifications and some people like to know what value is offered and what the spec does for them. We tried to strike a balance. BZ> Similar for overblown phrases like "huge variety of graphical objects" (I BZ> recommend removing "huge" since it adds nothing to the meaning and again sounds BZ> like badly-written promotional literature). Well, a path can create a theoretically infinite number of shapes :) BZ> The last bullet point of 2.3 appears to be normative to me. Its not, although it does link to a normative conformance criterion. BZ> Is that the case? BZ> If so, please clearly indicate that, since it's in a chapter-full if informative BZ> material. I'd also recommend moving this conformance requirement to a separate, BZ> normative, section or chapter if this is indeed normative. Its already in the normative conformance section. Its listed again here because its one method for including SVG graphics in Web pages. We have clarified that the chapter is normative, so there should not be any confusion now. Please let us know if these clarifications do not satisfy your comments. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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