RE: feTile and feImage -- radical inconsistencies across browsers

Thanks TJ,

Perhaps this helps to explain why browsers have not been a hurry to implement them.

Take a look at the differences here:
http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/feImage.jpg
clockwise from upper left: Opera, Firefox, Safari, IE/ASV, Chrome.

This is for the file located at http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/feImage1.svg 

Regards
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:54 AM
To: David Dailey
Cc: SVG public list
Subject: 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

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