- From: Jon Ferraiolo <jonf@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:18:48 -0800
- To: "T Rowley" <tor@cs.brown.edu>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
Tim, This is the response from the SVG Working Group to the comments first raised with: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2005Dec/0312.html Thanks for your comment. We agree that the specification was confusing its discussion of System Paint and believe we have fixed the wording to address your comment. Here is what the spec said previously: ----------------- 11.3.3 System Paint The following list of predefined System Paint servers must be supported. The type of paint returned depends on the operating system, user choices, and the implemenatation. The paint may be a solid color (which may include opacity) or a gradient (which may include multiple stop opacities). The names are intended to be descriptive. The implementation should attempt to map the predefined System Paint servers to the current appearance of user interface elements on the platform, including user color choices. For each of the predefined System Paint servers below, the text indicates the appropriate user interface element. ----------------- You comment was as follows: -------------- Section 11.13 defines color values for SVG. The primary difference between CSS2 colors and this is that gradients are allowed for the system colors (11.13.3), but these are underdefined without any guidelines as to what orientation or scale, making them useless. Give rules for this or omit this capability. -------------- Here is how that section of the spec now reads: ----------------- 11.3.3 System Paint Servers The following list of System Paint Servers must be supported. If a paint specification specifies one of the System Paint Servers, then the user agent must either paint using a system-provided paint server or paint with a substitute paint server, such as a color or gradient. System paint servers often depend on the operating system, user choices, and the implementation. Substitute paint servers should attempt to match the appearance of corresponding user interface elements on the platform, including user color choices. In environments which do not provide adequate system paint server APIs, a conformant user agent may use substitute paint servers which do not necessarily match the environment's system paint servers. ----------------- Please tell us within two weeks if this response is not acceptable. Jon Ferraiolo Adobe Systems, Inc. Member SVG WG -------------- From: T Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:47:18 -0600 Message-ID: <43B307E6.5020500@cs.brown.edu> To: www-svg@w3.org Section 11.13 defines color values for SVG. The primary difference between CSS2 colors and this is that gradients are allowed for the system colors (11.13.3), but these are underdefined without any guidelines as to what orientation or scale, making them useless. Give rules for this or omit this capability.
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