- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 22:59:09 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Dirk Schulze wrote: > > It is an object to support SVG animations on className. It is of type > SVGAnimatedString. To support classList the same way we would need an > object SVGAnimatedStringList, what we don't have at the moment. I don't > think that their will be plans to support it in the future. > > Nevertheless, we had a lot of bug reports where web developers want to > use functionality form HTML in SVG as well. Therefore I would like SVG > and HTML to be consistent here. I don't think that moving classList to > Element would break backwards compatibility. So I think it should be in > Element since it indeed can be a win for all markup languages. I think having className and classList represent different things would be even more confusing than not having classList at all. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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