Re: Determining the Viewport for an SVG Element

Would this apply to things like <pattern> also?  I have seen a few people
ask on Stack Overflow about how to prevent patterns being affected by the
viewport transform because they were trying to use SVGs in their responsive
web designs.

Paul



On 19 May 2014 20:29, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2014 00:28:12 +0200, Gavin Kistner <phrogz@me.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>  (Independent of all this, I’m also interested: have there been any
>> discussions of scale/zoom independent font sizes, similar in desire to
>> vector-effect:non-scaling-stroke?)
>>
>>
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23645150/maintain-
>> same-font-size-text-regardless-of-viewbox-zooming
>> [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23664967/
>> determining-the-svg-viewport-in-global-root-coordinates
>> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530985
>>
>
> Cancelling (or partially cancelling) the effect of a transform on a given
> element was discussed at the last F2F meeting, see the proposal [4]. It's
> been accepted for SVG2 [5], the action for adding it to the spec hasn't
> been completed yet.
>
> [4] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Proposals/vector_
> effects_extension
> [5] http://www.w3.org/2014/04/09-svg-minutes.html#item06
>
> --
> Erik Dahlstrom, Web Technology Developer, Opera Software
> Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
>
>