RE: Minutes, January 14 2010 SVG WG telcon


Opera implements 1.2 Tiny features, I think you'll find it works there.

Alex

--Original Message--:
>Hi Helder,
>
>Yes, the rub is implementation. To the best of my knowledge, SVG Tiny is not targeted for implementation in any major browser, whereas SVG 1.1 might be.
>
>~ Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Helder Magalhães [mailto:helder.magalhaes@gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:39 PM
>To: Paul Williams
>Cc: www-svg@w3.org
>Subject: Re: Minutes, January 14 2010 SVG WG telcon
>
>Hi Paul,
>
>
>I'm not part of the SVG-WG but here goes (response inline)...
>
>
>> During the discussion of "unit" behavior, I noticed the following:
>>
>>>    ... and there are things that don't have units
>>>    ... the idea of SVG is it's scalable
>>
>> Scalable, yes -- but there are cases in which we would like certain elements to be non-scaling -- for instance stroke width and font metrics may want to have non-scaling parameters in the engineering domain.  That is, to allow the endpoints of a stroke to expand and contract, but always maintain a particular pixel stroke-width.
>
>I may be overlooking this but, AFAIK, the non-scaling-stroke
>vector-effect [1] (introduced in SVG Tiny 1.2) was specifically
>designed for this. :-)
>
>Please reply with more details if your use-case can't be addressed by
>this neat (yet not widely implemented) way to achieve fixed stroke
>width. ;-)
>
>
>> Thanks for listening,
>>  ~ Paul
>
>Hope this helps,
> Helder
>
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/painting.html#VectorEffectProperty
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