- From: T Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:47:06 -0500
- To: doug.schepers@vectoreal.com
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On 8/25/06 4:18 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: > T Rowley wrote: > | Mozilla SVG does have all the backend support for zoom and pan (the > | attribute, the DOM apis, and the adjustment of the transformations), > | there's just no UI to trigger zoom and pan. Discussion with other > | mozilla principals indicated they were opposed to ASV-style > | controls for SVG, and that page zoom as will be implemented in FF3 > | is the direction that should be taken. > > Of course, you should do whatever you think is most compatible with your UI > in general, but as an author (not as a member of the SVG WG), I personally > disagree with this decision regarding SVG-specific zooming/panning on 3 > grounds: > 1) it will not match the behavior of Opera or ASV (dunno about Safari); > 2) it is inconsistent with how rasters are treated; > 3) for mapping applications and other uses, it would be very nice to have > native zoom/pan/rotate. I don't think #2 is correct - omitting the pan/zoom UI makes SVG behavior consistent with rasters, not the opposite. Consider the case where a page has a mix of raster and SVG images. Why would the user suspect that on non-visually differentiated subset of those images that they can use keyboard shortcuts and/or a context menu to zoom in?
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