- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 03:18:44 -0400
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi, HTML WG- Like the HTML WG, the SVG WG is interested in a certain consistency between SVG and HTML, to make authoring and implementing easier and more intuitive. To that end, we're looking for opinions on adding a couple of features to SVG matching some in HTML that most authors would already be familiar with, and we are soliciting opinions about the best approach. We want to make it easier to link to external CSS resources, and to pass parameters to referenced resources. Through an oversight, the only specified way to link to an external CSS stylesheet is through an XML PI. While this works okay, it's not the best way to do it, and is different than the way HTML does it. We're looking at a couple of options: 1) we add @xlink:href to <svg:style> 2) we add a new element, like <link>, to SVG (I've already shown that this sometimes works when the <link> is in the XHTML NS [1], but that isn't specified anywhere, and isn't intuitive) Regarding passing parameters, SVG has never had a mechanism for this. We would like to add one. Again, we can either create a new element, or we could repurpose the <param> element from the HTML <object>, for use in SVG. Our preference is to reuse those element names, because authors are familiar with them, but to put them in the SVG NS, for use in standalone SVG documents (and in SVG-only UAs). We realize that this may have the potential to cause problems for some compound-document parsing scenarios, so we decided to put the question to the HTML WG, to see if there are substantive technical challenges to this approach. Thoughts? [1] http://www.schepers.cc/svg/style/external-link-xhtml.svg Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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