- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:17:06 +0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- Cc: Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc>
Camino developers have suggested that the current definitions used
for 'switch' and 'systemLanguage'
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#SwitchElement
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#SystemLanguageAttribute
mean that it's not possible for the client to express any language
preference.
The result is that the user should have no control over the language
displayed, as the first language in the authors switch statement
which is accepted by the client will be used.
It is evident this will only very rarely be the users language of
choice.
a test case is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=233450
My machine is set to accept the three languages, french, spanish,
german, but I will only get french, whatever my preference, unless I
edit the accepted language list.
a longer description of the issue is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326375
#3 & #17 in particular
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
it seems to me they may be equally true of the SVG1.2 definitions:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/struct.html#SwitchElement
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/struct.html#SystemLanguageAttribute
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://
www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="100%" height="100%">
<g id='symbol1Text'>
<switch >
<text x="20" y="20" systemLanguage="fr" >ploc</
text>
<text x="20" y="20" systemLanguage="es" >la
mancha</text>
<text x="20" y="20" systemLanguage="de" >splat</
text>
<text x="20" y="20" >splat</text>
</switch>
</g>
</svg>
Received on Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:17:28 UTC