- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:08:55 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Robert Longson: >Because it's pointless and makes viewers more complicated for no reason. I cannot see what is pointless about animating colors ... This seems to be more a philosophical question, what makes sense at all. Therefore recommendations are pretty fine, you have not to reflect about philosophical issues, you simply can implement what is recommended ;o) >Only authors that can't be bothered to change animateColor to animate >need to do that. >A simple search and replace script would fix things for them. I see, you agree to what I mentioned already, such viewers waste the time and resources of authors and users. Users cannot be sure, that documents are changed to the will of a few Mozilla-programmers and authors might not really want to spend time again to change documents, that worked already for many years and for all previous viewers they tested sucessfully, that do already, what is recommended in the SVG version, that is used for the document (even if removed in a future version, that does not change the existence in documents following SVG 1.1 or SVG tiny 1.2). And the Mozilla-programmers do not have access to all these documents to change them to camouflage such bugs or gaps of their viewer. Such a depreciation discussion has only the tendency, that other new implementors may draw the same wrong conclusion and a once reliable feature will get untrustworthy without any need. Finally many authors will get or keep the impression, that SVG is still not ready for use for the next 10 or 20 years, because viewers do not manage to implement what is already recommended for 10 or more years ... Olaf
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