Re: [SVG2 CR] viewport-fill, viewport-fill-opacity

The most recent discussion I could find about this ended in this post by
Erik Dahlstrom:
 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2014Jan/0038.html

That note references these minutes:
https://www.w3.org/2013/02/07-svg-minutes.html#item06
https://www.w3.org/2012/07/23-svg-minutes.html#item01

It sounds like the decision was to replace viewport-fill with CSS
background, but then no decision was made to make CSS background support
required in non-browser environments, or for nested SVG.  All the web
browsers support CSS background on the top-level <svg> element, both for
stand-alone SVG files and for inline SVG in HTML.  As far as I know, none
of the major browsers implemented viewport-fill.

My personal preference would be to make CSS background-color apply to all
SVG viewport elements, rather than using the SVG-specific terminology.

On 17 September 2016 at 12:32, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm missing viewport-fill and viewport-fill-opacity
> from SVG tiny 1.2 in the CR.
> Why are these pretty useful feature removed again?
>
> Something like <circle r="1e100" /> as a work around has problems as well
> in
> some viewers.
>
> Olaf
>
>