RE: Does PATH need a new attribute?

Smailus, Thomas O wrote
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:57 PM
To: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann; www-svg@w3.org
Subject: RE: Does PATH need a new attribute?

While one can use stroke-dasharray to get such an effect, it feels like a misuse semantically, since there is not actually a dash pattern on the shape, but that distict edges are stroked with a certain style.  If one were to try and do some analysis of the SVG to learn something about the shape - having it with a dashed stroke would mislead about what the object represents.

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Hi Thomas,

In the good old days of SVG 1.1 and ASV, one could use SVG fonts to design very cool markers and then use text layout along a textpath to simulate all manner of markers, variable stroke-width, and even gradients that were neither linear nor radial. One wouldn't have even needed <replicate> to do it. Someone just asked me if it were possible to layout textures that would have the same orientation as the boundary of a geopolitical region, and I had to say, nope only in 2004 could you do that. I did refer them to the new proposals on markers though! 

Of course the semantics of pretending that pieces of gradient are letters of an alphabet was very screwy, but it did make for pretty pictures that your 6 year old could draw using markup.

Cheers
David

Received on Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:27:59 UTC