Re: Flowing text in SVG2

David Dailey wrote:
> 
> Agreed completely. The 1990's era concept that presentation, behavior, and
> appearance were all separate silos of activity was a cute metaphor for a
> 20th century world filled with hypertext flowed into rectilinear cells. In a
> larger world, like SVG should be, the three are all part of the "meaning" of
> an expression. Of course such late 20th century thinking was the mindset

One of the big changes in the cultural background is that legislators 
have taken an interest in accessibility, and that generally requires 
that meaning be separable from presentation, which is something which 
HTML was designed for, but, in my view, SVG only pays lip service to.

Otherwise, I'd suggest that the real changes in technology have been on 
the hardware side (faster, more memory) and there hasn't really been 
much of a change in what commercial content creators want.  In fact some 
of the very early design decisions on HTML were deliberately at odds 
with the commercial tools of the day.

(Another cultural changes seems to be "top" posting!)

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Received on Monday, 22 April 2013 12:12:44 UTC