Re: UA: indicate missing content

Doug,

Your earlier emails do not appear to meet the needs, as if height and  
width are not specified, what else would identify the checkerboard area?

regards


Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd@btinternet.com
http://www.openicon.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764



I don't appreciate your tone, my email was clearly addressed to erik,  
and in response to his email.

On 28 Jul 2008, at 21:42, Doug Schepers wrote:

>
> Hi, Jonathan-
>
> Please refer to my earlier post on this issue:
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Jul/0174.html
>
> Also, you can follow the thread starting here for more information,  
> including links to the revised wording in the spec:
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2008JulSep/ 
> 0091.html
>
> If this doesn't meet your needs, let us know specifically where it  
> needs work, and suggest specific remedies.  The current working plan  
> is that if no fallback content is provided for an element with no  
> specified dimensions, nothing would be displayed.  Note that for SVG  
> Full, <use> does have 'width' and 'height' attributes.
>
> Regards-
> -Doug
>
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd wrote (on 7/28/08 9:16 AM):
>> Erik,
>> What is your meaning?
>> my assumption, possibly erroneous is that the spec. is necessarily  
>> in error, as without some dimensions it would not be possible to  
>> provide a checkerboard pattern.
>> regards
>> Jonathan Chetwynd
>> j.chetwynd@btinternet.com
>> http://www.openicon.org/
>> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
>> On 28 Jul 2008, at 12:59, Erik Dahlström wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:15:17 +0200, Doug Schepers  
>>> <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Jonathan-
>>>>
>>>> You're right, this is not adequately defined in the spec,  
>>>> particularly
>>>> in the case where a <use> references an element that isn't there.
>>>
>>> In case a checkerboard pattern is desired here note that <use>  
>>> elements in general don't specify their dimensions, and that in  
>>> 1.2T there are no 'width' and 'height' attributes on <use>.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> /Erik
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software
>>> Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
>>> Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
>>>
>