Re: Ambiguities in fill:url() / stroke:url() syntax

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On Oct 28, 2012, at 10:06 PM, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org<mailto:robert@ocallahan.org>> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com<mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com>> wrote:
In that case, as long as we're *able* to head off SVG Stacks at the
pass, I'm cool with your alternate approach, suitably expanded to
disallow all things that *look* like MFs in step a (that is,
everything with an ident followed by an = sign).

Can we simplify it to just exclude =, ( and ) characters from external resource references? That also excludes functional syntax like SVG 1.1 cooked up for svgView(). It also gives SVG Stacks users a workaround: use identifiers such as "=bar" in their images.

How will we know if we're "able to head off SVG Stacks"? I'm not entirely comfortable with just disabling them in Firefox without a commitment from other browser vendors to do the same.

Firefox supports it, opera supports it, won't take to long for WebKit to have fragments either. And there is already use of fragments, which makes it harder to restrict fragments at this time. (Filter Effects use them). It doesn't make sense to restrict them, just because we have a use case in mind where we could use a workaround. After all we mainly have fragments for resources, why would they still be allowed to use any fragment? Unless I did not misunderstand the proposal (may did not get all emails), I don't think this is a good idea at this point.


> By the way, if someone created an document foo.svg with a paint server
> element whose ID is "xywh=0,0,10,10", how would your magical approach treat
> url(foo.svg#xywh=0,0,10,10)? :-)

I think SVG agreed recently (dunno if it's made it into the SVG2
draft) that we'll restrict the syntax of fragment identifiers to
disallow all MF-looking things from referring to elements.

I didn't know that. I don't see anything about it in the SVG2 draft. That is important since it could interact with what we're trying to do here.


It does not, nor were there plans to do so.

Greetings,
Dirk


Rob
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