- From: Steve Schafer <steve@fenestra.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:50:46 -0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:15:17 +0200, you wrote: >> Is somebody able to explain why the overlapping method is used, either >> for intuitive reasons or technical reasons? Or is it just an arbitrary >> choice by those who write the standards? ... >> What do you think? Should I simplify my code and just draw one over the >> other? Or should the standard be changed, and Inkscape and other >> renderers do what I did? I won't speculate on whether it's "right" or not, but it is the way it's been done since time immemorial (that is, since the 1980's). I believe it started with PostScript, and continued with the Windows GDI. It would certainly cause confusion if SVG were to behave differently. -Steve Schafer
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