- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:27:24 +0100
- To: "David Dailey" <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- CC: "'Cameron McCormack'" <cam@mcc.id.au>, "'Brian Birtles'" <bbirtles@mozilla.com>, "'www-svg'" <www-svg@w3.org>
On Sunday, December 11, 2011, 3:31:41 PM, David wrote: DD> Oftentimes I have found myself drawing stuff invisibly first, so DD> that I can measure it. Then after knowing how big it will be I position it. DD> Centering things relative to one another is difficult in SVG DD> (unlike in HTML/CSS), and CSS doesn't seem to help with this issue DD> (unless I'm missing something -- and I well may be), so when I DD> start finding parts of the spec that tell me I cannot measure DD> things unless they are visible, it makes me nervous. I recall a DD> similar issue recently with getBBox and leprechaun-nodes. If you want things to be rendered (but invisible) - as opposed to not being in the rendering tree at all, which is what display: none does - then visibility: hidden is what you want. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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