Re: Media queries in <switch> elements

Ah, the correct link to Robin’s presentation:

http://berjon.com/presentations/20130910-ricg-switch/

Thanks, David, for pointing it out!

Manuel

Am 6.3.2014 11:15, schrieb Manuel Strehl:
> Hi,
> 
> recently several posts and tutorials sing the song of “responsive
> SVG”, e.g. Clown Car,
> <http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/02/clown-car-technique-solving-for-adaptive-images-in-responsive-web-design/>,
> Responsive Icons, <http://responsiveicons.co.uk/> or more recently,
> <http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/05/rethinking-responsive-svg/>.
> 
> In all these articles some combination of CSS media queries and JS are
> leveraged. The humble <switch> element is never even mentioned. And
> that’s because it’s useless here. I’ve found this brainstorming:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Proposals/IFrame_Like_Syntax#5.9.2_The_.27switch.27_element
> 
> and this presentation from Robin Berjon:
> 
> http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/05/rethinking-responsive-svg/
> 
> where a "media" attribute is mentioned, and I’d like to ask, if there
> are any ongoing discussions towards adding it. It may be useful inside
> a <switch> element to complete requiredFeature and requiredExtension
> and mirror <video> in HTML, or even stand-alone, on arbitrary
> rendering elements.
> 
> The advantage is straight-forward in-markup ways to declare, which
> parts of the image to render, and which to discard in some viewing
> circumstances. Since evaluation of media queries is already
> implemented in browsers and the result is basically a simple "display
> full"/"display none" switch, I’d suspect implementations to be not
> completely insanely hard.
> 
> Reference SVG of what I’m talking about:
> 
> <svg>
> 
>   <!-- inside switch element: -->
>   <switch>
>     <rect media="screen and (max-width: 1em)"/>
>     <rect media="print" />
>   </switch>
> 
>   <!-- or standalone: -->
>   <rect media="print" />
> 
> </svg>
> 
> Cheers,
> Manuel

Received on Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:25:59 UTC