Re: [1.2T-LC] Comments and suggestions, mainly regarding the Linking section

Hello www-svg,

ISSUE-2121

The SVG WG agree to your suggestion below, and have removed the
reference to elliptical arcs as you suggest. Please let us know
shortly if this satisfies your comment.

> 8. Elliptical arcs still referred to in minimize section [MINIMIZE]
> 
> Current wording:
> 
> SVG's path data definition was defined to produce a compact data
> stream for vector graphics data: all commands are one character in
> length; relative coordinates are available; separator characters do
> not have to be supplied when tokens can be identified implicitly;
> smooth curve formulations are available (cubic Béziers, quadratic
> Béziers and elliptical arcs) to prevent the need to tessellate into
> polylines; and shortcut formulations exist for common forms of cubic
> Bézier segments, quadratic Bézier segments, and horizontal and
> vertical straight line segments so that the minimum number of
> coordinates need to be specified.
> 
> But arcs aren't available in this particular profile. Suggestion is to
> remove this particular item resulting in:
> 
> SVG's path data definition was defined to produce a compact data
> stream for vector graphics data: all commands are one character in
> length; relative coordinates are available; separator characters do
> not have to be supplied when tokens can be identified implicitly;
> smooth curve formulations are available (cubic Béziers and quadratic
> Béziers) to prevent the need to tessellate into polylines; and
> shortcut formulations exist for common forms of cubic Bézier segments,
> quadratic Bézier segments, and horizontal and vertical straight line
> segments so that the minimum number of coordinates need to be
> specified.




-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG

Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 11:48:45 UTC