Re: textLength and textAdjust

With regards to textLength on tspan/textPath: Yes, it should be possible,
but browser implementations are horribly buggy.  SVG 2 has new language
which should clarify what *should* happen.  Please file browser bugs and/or
upvote the bug reports that are already there.

Regarding switching these to presentation attributes.  That's a valid
request, though it's too late to change for SVG 2.  Why don't you file an
issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues so it doesn't get forgotten?

~Amelia

On 28 August 2016 at 08:06, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
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> Edge, IE, Opera, Chrome and Firefox all seem to support textLength and
> textAdjust which is a good thing since it allows one to draw text, almost
> Logo-like allowing text to remain text (searchable, selectable, accessible
> and all) while still retaining a designer’s desire to have text fit into a
> display in a predictable way (example, [ 1]). At [2], Taylor Hunt has this
> to say about textLength and textAdjust:
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> “Sadly, both are just attributes, and cannot be used in CSS. It would be
> super nice to write text { length-adjust: spacingAndGlyphs; }, but
> instead you have to specify it on each <text> element you want it on.”
>
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> I concur with this sentiment, and while I would posit that all (with the
> possible exception of a thoroughly bounded number) animatable attributes
> from SVG have a place in the grand pantheon of the world’s future
> animation, this is one of those “presentational” things that CSS seems
> especially well-suited for.
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> Further, Mr. Hunt goes on to say that these are applicable only to <text>
> and not to <tspan>, I get the sense from the SVG1.1 spec that both are
> meant to be applicable to <tspan>, however the example [3] seems to render
> inconsistently everywhere, with only Chrome doing it as I might like.
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> Cheers,
>
> David
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> [1] http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/text/belize.svg
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> [2] https://codepen.io/tigt/post/more-robust-svg-text-with-
> lengthadjust-and-font-size-adjust
>
> [3] http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/ello/waterfallMask.svg
>