Re: SVG-as-an-image and scaling the SVG by default

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Tony Schreiner <tonyschr@microsoft.com>wrote:

> For IE9 RC, just released today, we looked at the sizing behavior across
> browsers and considered matching Opera's behavior of introducing a viewBox
> for <img> only. But because this was not part of any specification and
> because of the other sizing inconsistencies we decided to follow the letter
> of the SVG spec. There may be a bit of irony here, as Firefox's choice to
> follow the spec was one factor we considered in whether or not to follow
> Opera's behavior.
>

Sorry to hear that. We just changed a couple of days ago to follow the Opera
behavior.  See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614649

I strongly feel it's the right behavior for Web authors, since it makes SVG
behave much more like other image types.

Rob
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