- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 06:39:23 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
On May 26, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > I think I remember this being brought up before, but I can't find > anything on the mailing list with a quick search. > > SVG 1.1 says the the value "auto" for SVG elements means the same as > "visible", which is quite different from CSS boxes, where it means > "scroll if you have a scrolling mechanism, and hidden otherwise". Given > that we don't allow scrolling viewports in SVG, shouldn't "auto" mean > "hidden" for us? > > > Oh I just found the mail I was thinking of, from dbaron: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Jul/0000.html > > That never got a reply, and I said in > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573387#c9 that I would > bring it up again. I doubt anyone is relying on overflow:auto meaning > visible; Gecko still interprets it as hidden, although WebKit and Opera > do follow the current spec here. > > Updated test attached. > <o.svg> Again, follow CSS3 and change SVG wording. This is less confusing for authors. Greetings, Dirk
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