Re: feTile and feImage -- radical inconsistencies across browsers

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:06 AM, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote:
> The overall question I was trying to ask was “does feTile really add
> anything that <pattern> doesn’t? And does <feImage> really do anything that
> <image> doesn’t?” I’m relatively certain that the answer is yes, but it’s
> hard to convince myself in the absence of such oddities.

I believe their only advantage over their respective non-filter
brethren (note that <feImage> is also equivalent to <use>) is that
they can define their own filter sub-region bounds.  Otherwise they're
equivalent to passing a paint server as a filter input.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:55:06 UTC