- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:24:10 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org, ddknoll@gmail.com
Hello, I think, the simpler and better approach you can already use in SVG tiny 1.1 is to use no units at all in the content, but using a viewBox and if required use only units for width and height of the svg root element. This scales the complete graphics and you do not have to worry about units within the content at all. Units in path data may create conflicts with scientific notation, the current commands or commands added in the future, respectively the interpretation of such data will get pretty complex with additional units - resulting maybe in a slowdown for the presentation of path data and everytime a command is added to SVG paths or a unit is added to CSS one has to care about conflicts again, path data parsers have to be changed again with the risk of more bugs than before ... Already now some viewers have problems to get every possible combination of path commands right and there are even more problems with units or constructs with mixed units. Typically authors can avoid a lot of trouble not using units in the content at all. Concerning path data they can avoid trouble, if they only use 'usual' combinations instead of extreme short notations. Olaf
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