- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:20:51 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org, steve@withallyourequire.com
Steve Withall: >The next logical step would be to use a property >to identify the type of shape, and do away with >all the pesky shape elements altogether! :) > >Steve. This idea is already realised. In SVG tiny 1.2 you can do something like this (attributes, not properties, derived from WAI-ARIA respectively RDFa). Once you have a 'specification' (like wikipedia) for named shapes, you can refer with attributes like 'role' or 'property' (!surprise by choice of name!) to this specification, where the shape is described in detail. This can be useful for all these named shapes SVG has no element for, if it is important, that a user with no graphical representation can get a simpler access to the meaning of the graphical structure as to analyse the value of the d attribute of path ;o) Olaf
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