- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:52:28 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Quoting Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>: >>> It would probably not be hard to support svg as an image type but we >>> prefer to use <image> only for still raster images and use <animation> >>> for animated vector graphics sine this is in line with SMIL and makes a >>> nice and clean separation between the two media types. > > AvK> I'd like to know if this would also apply to <html:img>, > 'background-image', > AvK> 'list-style-image', 'content', etc. besides <svg:image>. > > Thats an extrapolation on the word 'image'. Instead, look at the > actual elements. For that element and the mentioned CSS properties I would image some kind conversion being in place. Perhaps allowing animation and some scripting to achieve that but no interaction events and all that. > AvK> Makes no sense whatsoever. > > In fact it does; take a look at what the animation element does (in > smil and in svg) and compare that to what the image element does (in > svg tiny). Its unfortunate that SVG 1.1Full allowed SVG on the image > element, but thats something we have since corrected. It completely contradicts with the fact that SVG has an image/svg+xml media type. It's fine that the <svg:animation> element has more options and all that, but that should not limit the amount of options for <svg:image>. > AvK> I agree that for these type of "images" certain features of SVG > AvK> would have to be limited or even disabled but just forbidding SVG seems > AvK> weird/wrong. > > 'certain features'? I'm still awaiting for some WG to define that. At the very least it is needed for CSS properties like 'background-image'. Probably also for <html:img> and it could be used for <svg:image> as well. Someone just has to come up with a definition on what should be ignored when such a property/element points to an SVG resource. Interaction events would be one. It's also one of the things a lot of people want from SVG. Being able to simply use it as decorative background images. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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