Re: 'clip' property and the behavior on 'auto'

> > In CSS 2.1 it says
> >
> > 'auto' The element does not clip.
> SVG is precisely on how to use 'auto'. I don't think that "Firefox
> implements CSS 2.1" means that SVG can't override the definition. That is
> why I ask if we can remove this clarification for SVG elements.
>

What I really meant was that we parse rect arguments per CSS 2.1 rather
than per CSS 2.0 which is not compliant with SVG 1.1 but, I hope will be
compliant with SVG 2


>
> >
> > If you want clipping you need an overflow value other than visible (This
> value indicates that content is not clipped per CSS 2.1) and you want the
> svg width/height to be larger than the clip region to see clipping occur.
> 'overflow' with 'visible' says:
>
> "This value indicates that content is not clipped, i.e., it may be
> rendered outside the block box."
>
> It could be interpret that this is a general statement. I would just
> interpret that it is not clipped by the 'overflow' property. After all
> Firefox allows clipping with 'clip-path', so this seems not to be the
> reason:
>

CSS 2.0 was more explicit in this regard.
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/visufx.html#clipping I don't
know whether the sentence was removed because it was tautologous or wrong
though.

Best regards

Robert.