- From: Ola Andersson <Ola.Andersson@ikivo.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:42:37 +0200
- To: <www-svg@w3.org>
- Cc: <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Hi,
The wording proposed by Doug is now added to the spec.
/ola
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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:37:40 +0100
To: "Doug Schepers" <doug@schepers.cc>
Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Message-ID: <sdg3r1hd2i9lb5ueclc3kmnev1niivpj5n@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>
* Doug Schepers wrote:
>| The new text has "To be scalable, SVG content must include a 'viewBox'
>| attribute on the 'svg' element." So SVG is really for
>| scalable and un- scalable vector graphics?
>
>I suggest that the paragraph be revised to say:
>
> "Normally, SVG content is designed to be scalable. In order for the SVG
> content to scale automatically to fill the available viewport, it must
> include a 'viewBox' attribute on the 'svg' element. This describes the
> region of world coordinate space (the initial user coordinate system)
> used by the graphic. This attribute thus provides a convenient way to
> design SVG documents to scale-to-fit into an arbitrary viewport."
>
>To be precise, the "available viewport" is the dimensions specified in a
>referencing element ('iframe', 'object', 'embed') in the case of a reference
>in a mixed document, the whole browser canvas for a standalone SVG document,
>or the dimensions specified in the 'svg' root for compound documents.
>
>Would something like this work for you, Bjoern_?
This is better, I am not fond of repeatedly saying that this enables
scale to fit to the viewport (well, it says scale-to-fill and scale-
to-fit...) though.
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