- From: anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 23:19:30 +0300
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAPkN8xKaw3JuB38szz4ecbDgc_-Ef24j=XLqCoYrLTpYBYr_nw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Dear Sirs and Madams, I am writing you on behalf of Inkscape and Chromium community to ask. What is the flowed text http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/flow.html replacement in the next more advanced and awesome SVG2? I am asking, because it seems to be a valuable feature for Inkscape - http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Enter-Flow that allows to insert linebreaks automatically for text inside some shape. Right now Inkscape uses flowRoot and friend elements, which were not adopted in SVG1.2. Does SVG2 include this user story? Does it consider this feature useful? If not, then why? If this user story is not covered, then what alternative is proposed? I am asking, because I author SVG files in Inkscape and can not view them on Chrome, which is very disappointing - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=225660 - especially considering that SVG is meant to be web format. As you may see Chromium authors are full with uncertainties too There are rumors that automatic linefeed insertion belongs to HTML. I frankly, do not understand the arguments, reasoning and how it should work. Does that need Inkscape to be shipped with Webkit, which will execute HTML inside the box? That sounds like an overkill for the linefeed problem. Please give us an extensive answer to your position. We wholeheartedly trust you, but nevertheless are very worried about the practical side of SVG2 for us, ordinary users. Thanks. Please CC. -- anatoly t.
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