Re: Proposal: <star> element

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dirk Schulze:
>> On Apr 29, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>> > .. to continue this chain of arguments, irregular star like shapes are
>> > pretty common as well, but not covered by Paul LeBeaus proposal.
>> > Maybe people belonging to nations with regular stars in their flags
>> > (and with a stronger relationship to those kinds of symbols)
>> > are more focussed on these regular shapes, if they talk about 'star', but
>> > others will be surprised, that the proposal does not cover some other
>> > kinds of popular stars.
>>
>> Thankfully this represents at least 850 million people (EU, US and
>> Australia alone).
> China as well ...
>
>>
>> Please avoid any kind of judgement of people on this list.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Dirk
>
> I cannot see any jugdement here, there is just a relation between
> logos and shapes people are familiar with and their nation and culture.
> If you have an association of judgement to these shapes or their use,
> this is bad (unfortunately logos and symbols are often abused to
> discriminate people, this should be avoided)  -
> I prefer tolerance, there is nothing bad in preferring regular or irregular
> stars, both is ok, this is the core idea of this statement ;o)

Irregular stars can't be handled in any meaningfully simpler way than
just using a <path> in any case, so this entire tangent is irrelevant.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:37:24 UTC