Re: Announcement: Last Call WD of SVG 1.1 Second Edition

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:41:16 +0200, Robert O'Callahan <
> robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
>
>  A couple of issues I discovered in the filter spec don't seem to have been
>> addressed yet:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008May/0013.html
>>
>
> Now tracked as ISSUE-2334.
>

Thanks!


>
>   <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008May/0014.html>
>>
>
> That's a comment on SVG 1.2 filters, and it doesn't seem to apply to SVG
> 1.1 Second edition.


Oops. I thought I'd removed that from my message. Sorry.


>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Jun/0007.html
>>
>
> Now tracked as ISSUE-2333.


Thanks!


>  There's also an open issue on the interaction between pointer-events,
>> filters, foreignObject, cross-origin IFRAMEs and elementFromPoint:
>> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2071
>>
>
> As you may see that issue has already been moved to SVG 2.0. It was
> believed that it would require substantial changes to the specification, and
> as such that it was out of scope for SVG 1.1 second edition.
>

Ah. I actually don't think that's a good idea. The problem arises in SVG 1.1
and should be solved there, IMHO. The fact that the solution is likely to
require a behaviour change somewhere actually makes it more imperative it be
solved soon, before the features involved get used more widely.

Rob
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