- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:56:29 -0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, folks- I was just reminded of a use case I thought of long ago, but never articulated: the ability to wrap an SVG image on either (or both) the x or y axis. This would be most useful for maps, though there would be other uses. For example, when panning east to west on a map, currently, you just "run out" of map... you bump into the western border; if we allowed pan wrapping, the western (leftmost) border would attach seamlessly to the eastern (rightmost) border, making a continuous pan. See this submarine cable map for a practical example [1]. This might complicate the viewBox (depending on how that interaction is defined), but I still think we should discuss it. I imagine this working much like CSS background tiling; it could be as simple as having a 'pan-wrap' property, with values 'repeat-x | repeat-x | repeat | none'. This is one of those things that would be relatively simple to do in a UA, and hard to do in script or markup (I think). [1] http://submarine-cable-map-2012.telegeography.com/ Regards- -Doug
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