- From: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:30:15 +0100
- To: "Patrick Dengler" <patd@microsoft.com>, "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:51:13 +0100, Patrick Dengler <patd@microsoft.com> wrote: ... > #3F - SVGSVGElement 'width' and 'height' > ========================================= > > In SVGSVGElement 'width' and 'height' are exposed as SVGLength objects. > And > > "For outermost svg elements, the intrinsic width of the SVG document > fragment. For embedded 'svg' elements, the width of the rectangular > region into which the 'svg' element is placed. > A negative value is an error (see Error processing). A value of zero > disables rendering of the element. > If the attribute is not specified, the effect is as if a value of '100%' > were specified. > > For outermost svg elements, the intrinsic height of the SVG document > fragment. For embedded 'svg' elements, the height of the rectangular > region into which the 'svg' element is placed. > A negative value is an error (see Error processing). A value of zero > disables rendering of the element. > If the attribute is not specified, the effect is as if a value of '100%' > were specified." > > Percentages in SVGLength are defined as one of: > - a percentage of the nearest viewport > - a percentage of the nearest bounding box > - a unit percentage (50% = 0.5) > > We believe that the width and height (as well as the x and y) on the > topmost 'svg' element do not fall into any of these categories. > > Section 5.11.2 should explicitly state what the percent applies to for > x, y, width and height in the top most svg element. ACTION-2469 is meant to address that for SVG 1.1 second edition. In the mean time, the wording in SVG Tiny 1.2 [1] should be correct for the outermost svg element (though note that nesting svg elements is not allowed in tiny). Cheers /Erik [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/coords.html#IntrinsicSizing -- 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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