Flowing text in SVG2

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.

Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:20:24 UTC