- From: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:12:32 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org, "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>, www-svg@w3.org
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:56:03 +0100, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: > >> On Friday, October 30, 2009, 8:56:18 PM, Robert wrote: >> >> ROC> For legacy compatibility reasons, we can't do this for >> ROC> specifiedType="auto". >> >> Could you explain what legacy compatibility reasons mean that you can't >> do >> this? > > > It means that anyone who's using <animate attribute="height"> instantly > breaks, because it would animate the 'height' CSS property which does > nothing in SVG. How about making the 'height' attribute a presentation attribute for SVG.next? I think it's possible to stay backwards compatible while adding the option of specifying the width/height through CSS. Cheers /Erik -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
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