Re: CSS in SVG tests?

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:25 +0200, Erik Dahlstrom wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 11:01:23 +0200, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >  Has anybody put together a set of CSS in SVG tests (besides those
> > included in the W3C SVG test suite)? We have a GSOC student who is
> > working on improving Inkscape's CSS support.
> 
> I think such tests would be useful, but I'm not aware of any fully  
> covering testsuite for that. Have you asked on www-style too? It's  
> probably possible to convert the CSS2.1 testsuite[1] to use svg elements  
> without too much trouble, though that would miss out on the properties  
> defined in the SVG spec(s) and not all properties in CSS2.1 apply to svg  
> elements.

I haven't asked www-style.

I was thinking about adapting the CSS2.1 test suite but that would be
some work.

> As a somewhat related feature request, it would be nice if Inkscape  
> stopped outputting style attributes with tons of properties with their  
> default values specified. And it would be really nice if Inkscape could  
> optionally gather common styles in a <style> element and use e.g class  
> selectors to apply it to the proper elements.

The first request is on the list of things for the student to do. We'll
have to see about the second.

     Tav

Received on Thursday, 26 May 2011 12:47:04 UTC