Re: [svg-developers] getBBox of a stroked object from Cameron McCormack on 2011-10-16 (www-svg@w3.org from October 2011)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:33:14 -0700
To: www-svg@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E9A426A.2080802@mcc.id.au>

On 17/09/11 8:48 AM, David Dailey wrote:
> I'm forwarding this discussion to the SVG Working Group, in hopes that
> something like getStrokedBBox() could be added to SVG 2.0.
> There are times that one would want to know the actual footprint of
> something with its stroke. Apologies if this has already been discussed here
> -- I seem to recall a thread, but a scan of the last few months of the
> archives didn't reveal it.

Something like this has been on our radar for a while but it seems there 
was no tracking of this issue, so thanks for bringing it up again.  I've 
added it to our list of inputs to the SVG2 requirements development.

Cameron

Received on Sunday, 16 October 2011 02:33:57 UTC