Re: ISSUE-2334 - filter primitive subregion and feGaussianBlur (Was: Re: Announcement: Last Call WD of SVG 1.1 Second Edition)

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com> wrote:

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> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/ua-tests/gaussianblur-filter-subregion-issue-2334.svg
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> It seems that we have at least four implementations (Opera, Chrome, Batik,
> Adobe SVG plugin (and I'd assume Illustrator also - untested though)) that
> conceptually works as "clip the input, apply the filter, clip the output"
> versus one implementation (Firefox) that conceptually "applies the filter
> and then clips the output". Inkscape doesn't seem to handle filter primitive
> subregions (I've tried versions 0.47 and dev-0.48).
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> It can be argued that either way is better or worse (I think that both ways
> have valid use-cases). Still I'd suggest going with the legacy behaviour
> (input+output clipping) on this one, and adding a way for SVG Filters 1.2 to
> say whether input or output clipping is the desired behaviour, e.g by
> introducing a new filter primitive element feClip.
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> Thoughts? Would the above resolution be acceptable to you?
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Yes.

Rob
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