Re: Feature request for SVG2 : stroke-position

Dirk Schulze:
> I like the idea of stroke-position. I believe it covers most needs of web
> developers, it is easy to implement and doesn't cause multiple DOM calls
> like vector-effect does.
>
> stroke-fraction is maybe a bit to complicated in my eyes. How does it work
> together with stroke-width? If it takes stroke width into account, what if
> the width doesn't reach the outermost border defined by stroke-fraction?
> This would have a better place in vector-effects.
>
You can see it in the examples, generally it is the same effect as if you
cover/clip parts of the stroke with another stroke of the same path with
another width. Because it is only a fraction of the stroke-width, the 
remaining part will be always within the width. If you need a larger offset,
you have to increase the stroke-width.

If you think stroke-position differs in what one can finally see, 
I think, it would be a good idea to have a proposal with a precise 
definition of stroke-position for arbitrary path segments (especially cubic)
and the combination with other stroke properties. Then we can see, 
whether it really differs from a stroke-fraction (of a stroke-fraction with 
a larger stroke-width) or not.

Because the idea of stroke-fraction I can realise already today with clipping
and masking, I think, it is simple to implement. If the appearence of 
stroke-position differs significantly from a stroke of SVG 1.1 with some
width and parts of the width is clipped, this would be really something new
to implement, no simplified notation of a known effect.
Therefore (decaratively animated) example simulations with loops, open paths,
subpaths, degenerate paths with no inside additionally to a precise definition 
will be interesting as well to see how this stroke-position really behaves in 
non trivial situations. 
This can help to avoid, that critical situations are not
defined at all - what we already have for stroke-dasharray.


Olaf

Received on Sunday, 2 October 2011 16:18:41 UTC