SVG 1.1 (second edition) paced animateTransform

Hello www-svg,

the current draft for 1.1 second edition still notes for
paced animateTransform:
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/animate.html#AnimateTransformElement

"
If ‘calcMode’ has the value 'paced', then a total "distance" for each 
component of the transformation is calculated (e.g., for a translate 
operation, a total distance is calculated for both tx and ty) consisting of 
the sum of the absolute values of the differences between each pair of 
values, and the animation runs to produce a constant distance movement for 
each individual component.
"
This is in conflict with the definition of calcMode paced:
"paced
Defines interpolation to produce an even pace of change across the animation. 
This is only supported for values that define a linear numeric range, and for 
which some notion of "distance" between points can be calculated (e.g. 
position, width, height, etc.).
"
The paragraph in the animateTransform section does not define/explain
correctly some interpolation between items in a values list or a notion 
of "distance" between points (the items in the values list), it defines more
than one distance and the result is of course in general not a paced 
change across the animation.

Therefore both is not implementable at the same time anyway. I would 
like to propose to remove the cited paragraph in the draft in the section
about animateTransform to avoid further confusion about this issue.
(SVG tiny 1.2 explains it better, but for SVG 1.1 (2E) it should be 
sufficient to remove the conflicting paragraph as a bug.)

Olaf

Received on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 09:35:48 UTC