Re: Default behavior for not mentioning 'preserveAspectRatio' attribute from Dr. Olaf Hoffmann on 2007-06-28 (www-svg@w3.org from June 2007)

From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:45:14 +0200
To: www-svg@w3.org, mustaf.here@gmail.com
Message-Id: <200706281745.14416.Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>

The default for preserveAspectRatio is 

xMidYMid meet

see in the specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#PreserveAspectRatioAttribute

Behaviour:
meet means roughly that the viewBox is scaled with 
preserved aspect ratio until it fits at one side to the
viewport and the other side is not larger as the 
viewport.

xMidYMid means roughly, that the result is centered.

I think, this explains already your examples

Received on Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:04:44 UTC