- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:15:16 +0200
- To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Cc: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
* Dirk Schulze wrote: >The algorithm to compute a bounding box for a container states the following[1]: > > • Let box be a rectangle initialized to (0, 0, 0, 0). > >and later: > > set box to be the union of box and the result of invoking the algorithm to compute a bounding box with child > >That means that box will always include the point (0,0) If `union` ignores that such a rectangle has no area then maybe, but that would be strange and unexpected, and I've certainly seen `union` implementations of geometry libraries that do not behave like that. Note that there is the related open issue "Issue 11: Need to define what the union of rectangles with no area means." -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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