Re: SVG <glyph> element spec

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:37:44 +0100, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>  
wrote:

>
> On Dec 19, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>> On 20/12/12 1:59 AM, Stephen Chenney wrote:
>>>> It seems that no browser supports arbitrary geometry inside a <glyph>
>>>> element. Only path data in the "d" attribute of the glyph is  
>>>> supported,
>>>> and then only on Opera and WebKit (as far as I can tell). There are no
>>>> W3C tests for non-path glyphs that I could find.
>>>>
>>>> I propose we drop the container aspect of glyph and insist on path  
>>>> data
>>>> only. The complexity of implementing arbitrary geometry inside <glyph>
>>>> makes it unlikely to be supported.
>
> Opera supports the font module from SVG 1.2 Tiny, which just allows the  
> d attribute. IIRC we couldn't find another viewer with full SVG 1.1  
> fonts support and decided to use the limited font module from SVG 1.2  
> Tiny instead of SVG 1.1 for SVG2. This would actually address your  
> concerns. Cameron/Erik please correct me if I am mistaken.

I think Batik and the viewer from Abbra are the only implementations I've  
used that supports (probably a subset of) full SVG Fonts, as in child  
elements in <glyph>. AFAIK no web browsers support arbitrary child  
elements in <glyph>.

-- 
Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software
Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed

Received on Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:33:07 UTC