- From: Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:36:42 -0400
- To: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:27 PM Subject: Re: SVG Fonts [...] To: Patrick Dengler <patd@microsoft.com> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Patrick Dengler <patd@microsoft.com> wrote: > <use> is a very powerful and nice feature and allows me "use" an svgdocument just like a font for the vast majority of use cases. > > <use .. xlink:href="svg.font#f"> > <use .. xlink:href="svg.font#o"> > <use .. xlink:href="svg.font#n"> > <use .. xlink:href="svg.font#t"> Except that you lose the text semantics. Searching for the word "font" in the use statement example above would fail. So would text selection for the same reasons. > I would love for someone to point me to more than 100 web pages that use them. I would use them if they had better support. Actually, for basic path outline support it isn't that difficult, and covers 90% of the use cases. I may start using them again anyway. Hopefully Mozilla will come on board, Firebug is such a useful tool. -- Cheers! Rick -- Cheers! Rick
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