Re: SVG pathSegList Deprecated via Chrome's version 48 TODAY!

Yes, I've looked at both. They are too amorphous when seeking to focus
specifically on SVG. I believe SVG2 requires a more formal means to address
the upcoming changes.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Philip Rogers <pdr@chromium.org> wrote:

> Francis,
>
> We maintain a list of all major SVG changes at
> https://www.chromestatus.com/features#svg
>
> All major SVG changes are also posted to blink-dev if you'd like to follow
> along: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/blink-dev
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Francis Hemsher <fhemsher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> It seems to me that the SVG2 updates via Chrome will take a few years to
>> complete. Chrome and developers will need a specific location to announce
>> and communicate. The best place for this to occur would be at
>> http://www.chromium.org/developers/discussion-groups
>> Merely include the group : Chromium-SVG.
>> Even following the SVG2 process, this could endure for any future SVG
>> changes. Believe me, the word will get out that any/all discussions for
>> Chrome's SVG will happen here. This should make the SVG transitions a
>> seamless and positive process for Chrome, allowing developers to appreciate
>> and understand Chrome's strategies relative to SVG.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Francis
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Francis Hemsher <fhemsher@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The issue with the path generated via D3 seems to be on my side of the
>>> fence, so no followup needed.
>>>
>>> As to the Chrome SVG developer notifications for upcoming SVG2
>>> upgrades...Let me think on it a bit, and will get back to you.
>>>
>>> ( I can't understand how I missed the console warning...I practically
>>> live inside the console.log)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Philip Rogers <pdr@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Francis,
>>>>
>>>> Please go ahead and create an issue on the github project for
>>>> svgpathseg about the interaction with d3. If you can include a specific
>>>> example that would be great.
>>>>
>>>> For notifying developers about SVG changes in Chrome... can you suggest
>>>> specifics for how could do better? For this change, we had many large
>>>> mailing list threads, a spec change and discussion on www-svg, developer
>>>> outreach to every site we could find (including directly committing patches
>>>> to fix svg-edit), and a warning message in the console for every user using
>>>> SVGPathSeg.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Francis Hemsher <fhemsher@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Philip,
>>>>> RE: your pathseg.js
>>>>>
>>>>> I use D3 quite a lot. Your polyfill may be stepping on some of its
>>>>> calculations relating to PATHSEG_CURVETO_CUBIC_SMOOTH_ABS,
>>>>> per d3.svg.line().interpolate("basis"): This builds the path's "d"
>>>>> attribute for the cubic "C" value.
>>>>>
>>>>> The particular app requires about 12-14 decimal places for each point.
>>>>> Is is possible your number handling may impact that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Where would be the best forum for us to discuss this further? I plan
>>>>> to create a few more tests and provide documentation to support my findings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Francis
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Francis Hemsher <fhemsher@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, I've tested your polyfill packet, and so far, looks good,
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Francis Hemsher <fhemsher@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Philip,
>>>>>>> I totally support upgrading SVG API's to SVG2. However, it can be
>>>>>>> handled as a very positive process by Chrome, rather than by shocking
>>>>>>> developers via a piecemeal approach as has happened with pathSeg. I'm
>>>>>>> suggesting a more formal presentation by Chrome addressing SVG's upgrades
>>>>>>> as a whole. You will find SVG developers will enthusiastically jump on
>>>>>>> board and help make it a seamless and enjoyable happening, celebrating
>>>>>>> Chrome, rather than berating it.
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Francis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Philip Rogers <pdr@google.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [-list]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Francis,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm Philip, one of the folks behind removing this from Chrome. I'm
>>>>>>>> sorry to hear this broke your pages. You may be able to use the polyfill I
>>>>>>>> wrote at https://github.com/progers/pathseg. Other folks have
>>>>>>>> found this to be a drop-in replacement.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Francis Hemsher <
>>>>>>>> fhemsher@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Initially it was somewhat of a challenge 15 years ago to wrap my
>>>>>>>>> head around building SVG paths via pathSegList  and its methods. I
>>>>>>>>> persevered, and thereby have about 200 files within various apps online
>>>>>>>>> that use this feature.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I believe Google has seriously jumped the gun in dumping this
>>>>>>>>> feature with no warning to developers. It will take quite a few
>>>>>>>>> hours/days/weeks to fix my pages to run in Chrome. In the meantime about
>>>>>>>>> 50% of my users will crash when getting into the SVG path.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm hoping for a bit of feedback to the Chrome folks to reconsider
>>>>>>>>> this, and a rollback to support of SVG's pathSegList. HELP!
>>>>>>>>> See the following:
>>>>>>>>>  https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=539385
>>>>>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=568735
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards & Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Francis Hemsher
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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