Re: HTML's SVG integration story

• From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
• Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:35:46 -0400
• To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
• Cc: Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me>, Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>, Nikos Andronikos <nikos.andronikos@cisra.canon.com.au>
• Message-ID: <56F3B4F2.8010809@w3.org>

Hi, Anne, Domenic, Simon–

Thanks for this. We'll raise it in our upcoming telcons, and we'd be 
quite happy work with you to resolve these. It will be great to have 
tighter integration between HTML and SVG.

Regards–
Doug

On 3/24/16 4:32 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've been fixing a few longstanding bugs recently with regards to SVG:
>
> 1. Allowing currentScript to return SVGScriptElement:
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/6762f878f3080d5c188c3d8a0fcf6ee9ad8b2df4
> 2. Supporting SVGImageElement in <canvas> and createImageBitmap():
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/806874fa426589be159c3c2e8266e00ade80e2e9
>
> Both of these still require work on the SVG side and we should
> probably figure out a plan together how to best define SVG script and
> image so they reuse the machinery already defined in HTML. If you need
> any kind of refactoring to happen on the HTML side we'd be happy to
> help.
>
> There's also a proposal to improve the HTML parser to make it easier
> to use HTML elements inside SVG which I'd love to get your input on:
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/919.
>
> If there's anything else that hasn't been reported yet but needs doing
> please let us know, thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
>
>

Received on Thursday, 24 March 2016 09:35:57 UTC