Re: About shapes with translucent borders

Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Juan-
>
> Welcome to the W3C SVG list.
>
> Juan Vuletich wrote (on 6/5/10 2:11 PM):
>>
>> All SVG renderes draw shapes by drawing first the fill, and then drawing
>> the border on top. At
>> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/vectoreffects/master/SVGVectorEffectsPrimer.html 
>>
>> and http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/render.html#PaintingShapesAndText ,
>> it is clear that the standard requests to do that.
>>
>> I didn't know that, and took the time to render this svg:
>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/rects.svg like this:
>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/rectsInM3.png . It is a bit more
>> complicated, but I feel it is better.
>>
>> What do you think? Should I simplify my code and just draw one over the
>> other? Or should the standard be changed, and SVG renderers do what I 
>> did?
>
> I think that ship sailed a few decades ago. :)  See my explanation 
> about the importance of picking a method and sticking to it [1], and 
> Steve Schafer's comment about the history of stroke and fill in 
> graphics [2].
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Jun/0068.html
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Jun/0067.html
>
> Regards-
> -Doug Schepers
> W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs

Ok. Thanks.

Juan Vuletich

Received on Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:59:32 UTC