- From: Tavmjong Bah <tav.w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:13:16 +0100
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, www-svg@w3.org
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 14:35 +1100, Cameron McCormack wrote: > In the SVG 2 draft, we allow transform on <tspan> and <textPath>. I > realise now however that this is inconsistent with what CSS allows in > non-SVG documents, and if we are defining SVG text layout in terms of > CSS text layout (plus an additional layer of SVG glyph positioning), > then we might want to reconsider. > > Specifically, the transform property is defined to apply only to > “transformable elements”: > > https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms/#transformable-element > > Notably this doesn’t include inline elements, which is what we are > considering <tspan> and <textPath> to be. > > As far as I know nobody has implemented this. Actually, rsvg seems to support transforms on tspan elements! I would have thought that transform on tspan elements would be treated as part of the post CSS layout step. However, I don't have a strong opinion on keeping transforms on tspan and textPath elements. Tav
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