[svg2] xpointer syntax in svgView

Hello,

the linking chapter in svg2 mentions xpointer in context of the viewSpec  
syntax[1]. Is xpointer support something that we might want to consider  
dropping from svg2?

Note that only the most trivial form of xpointer was ever required AFAICT,  
#xpointer(id('exampleID')), which has a simpler xpointer-less equivalent  
#exampleID.

I made a test[2] to check if browsers supported the xpointer syntax for  
views as described in the spec, and the results are as follows:

Supported:
- Opera 12.17 (Presto)

Not supported:
- Firefox Nightly 34
- Chrome 39/Opera 25
- IE11

[1] https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/linking.html#SVGFragmentIdentifiers
[2] http://xn--dahlstrm-t4a.net/svg/linking/xpointer-view.svg

-- 
Erik Dahlstrom, Web Technology Developer, Opera Software
Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group

Received on Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:45:36 UTC