Re: [css-compositing] blending and inline SVG

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

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> On May 20, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > All,
> >
> > I was editing the chapter on isolation [1] and wondered if inline svg
> should happen in an isolated group. (So the <svg> tag would establish a new
> group/stacking context)
> > It seems that it would be very hard to implement if this was not the
> case.
> >
> > Is everyone that inline SVG is always isolated?
> >
> > We also need to discuss what other constructs in SVG create isolation.
> The current filter spec assumes that nothing does, but that doesn't
> correspond with reality.
>
> The first question is how inline SVG cooperates with HTML in general. We
> did not specify that anywhere to my knowledge. In Blink and WebKit inline
> SVG elements are handled as replacement elements, same as <img>, <video> or
> <canvas>. It would make sense to not treat inline SVG elements different
> from the other elements for these two engines. However, I would like to
> understand where you see the technical difference to other "graphical" HTML
> elements like <div> or <p>.
>

I'm unsure what you are asking.
Browser are indeed treating svg as a canvas (and not as a change from the
css box model to the svg drawing model) so it makes sense to have the
content isolated.