Re: Rename 'd' property

[Replies to Sebastian Zartner's comments]

I like the idea of the 'geometry' property, though I dislike the
> overlapping of function and keyword names for circle, ellipse and rect. I
> believe it would be better to reuse the functions defined in the CSS Shapes
> module[1].
>
> E.g. the UA stylesheet rule for <circle> elements may look like this then:
>
> circle {
>   geometry: circle(attr(r) at attr(cx) attr(cy));
> }
>

The `cx`, `cy`, `r` properties, etc., have already shipped in at least two
browsers (WebKit & Chromium). So any new property would need to reference
them.

Regarding the statement above about CSS being universal, it needs to be
> clarified what happens when an author defines this for example:
>
> textPath {
>   geometry: circle(10cm at 5cm 5cm);
> }
>

The way I was thinking of it, it would actually turn into a circle.  Except
without the useful DOM object attached (as Tab mentioned in his
comments).  It would nonetheless be something to discourage as a poor
authoring practice, similar to using nothing but <blockquote> in an HTML
document and overriding styles to create the appearance of structure.


> We then need one final master property to turn on all these SVG-specific
>> rendering commands. Something I've talked with Tab about previously is to
>> do this with the `display` property.
>>
>
> I assume this discussion is related to the CSS Display module[2], right?
> It sounds like this point is out of scope of this discussion to be talked
> about separately.
> ...
> Can you elaborate a bit more on this? What is the problem of being able to
> toggle the display off without changing the box model?
>

Yes, it is related, and definitely stretches outside of the scope of SVG. A
different approach than the `box-suppress` method described in CSS Display,
but it would address the same goal. But it would also address the issue
that most of the `display` values are completely irrelevant and ignored for
SVG, while providing a way for SVG-namespaced elements to "opt-in" to the
CSS box layout model as part of an alternative textual display.



>
> [1] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-shapes/
> [2] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display/
>
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