IRC log of svg on 2009-01-22
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- Zakim, this will be GA_SVGWG
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- Meeting: SVG Working Group Teleconference
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- Date: 22 January 2009
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- +Shepazu
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- Zakim, this will be GA_SVGWG
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- Meeting: SVG Working Group Teleconference
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- Date: 22 January 2009
- 19:31:10 [ed]
- Zakim, call me too...:P
- 19:31:10 [Zakim]
- I don't understand 'call me too...:P', ed
- 19:31:34 [Zakim]
- +??P3
- 19:31:46 [ed]
- Zakim, ??P3
- 19:31:46 [Zakim]
- I don't understand '??P3', ed
- 19:31:50 [ed]
- Zakim, ??P3 is me
- 19:31:50 [Zakim]
- +ed; got it
- 19:33:10 [Zakim]
- +??P0
- 19:33:12 [heycam]
- Zakim, ??P0 is me
- 19:33:12 [Zakim]
- +heycam; got it
- 19:34:20 [Zakim]
- +[IPcaller]
- 19:34:32 [anthony]
- Zakim, [IP is me
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- +anthony; got it
- 19:40:23 [ChrisL]
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- Scribe: anthony
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- Chair: Erik
- 19:40:54 [ed]
- Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2009JanMar/0056.html
- 19:41:09 [anthony]
- Topic: Focused Telcons
- 19:41:16 [ChrisL]
- 1
- 19:41:25 [anthony]
- ED: I think that it would be good to split up the telcons so that we can both work
- 19:41:28 [Zakim]
- +??P2
- 19:41:38 [anthony]
- ... on finishing the SVG Errata and work on new things at the same time
- 19:41:38 [ChrisL]
- zakim, ??P2 is me
- 19:41:38 [Zakim]
- +ChrisL; got it
- 19:41:42 [anthony]
- ... this was also suggested by Doug
- 19:41:52 [anthony]
- ... and I think Heycam is also in agreement with the idea
- 19:42:04 [anthony]
- ... I suggest we start today in dealing with only the new stuff
- 19:42:27 [anthony]
- ... and we'll keep Monday with dealing with maintenance work
- 19:42:42 [anthony]
- ... I'm happy to switch chairing of the days as well if you want Heycam
- 19:42:52 [anthony]
- CMC: How will we schedule the discussion of the new things?
- 19:43:04 [anthony]
- ED: On the agenda I've added the road map on the Wiki
- 19:43:12 [anthony]
- ... but I wanted to get some idea where we are with all the work items
- 19:43:29 [anthony]
- ... so we are suppose to be publishing documents every 3 months
- 19:43:37 [anthony]
- ... we published SVG Tiny 1.2 on Dec 22nd
- 19:43:42 [anthony]
- ... we have until March I guess
- 19:43:53 [anthony]
- DS: We should be really strict about publishing
- 19:44:00 [anthony]
- CL: I agree
- 19:44:04 [anthony]
- ... it's more strict than that
- 19:44:17 [anthony]
- ... because it's suppose to be for every document
- 19:44:29 [anthony]
- ... it depends on the number of deliverables
- 19:44:38 [anthony]
- ... the original intention is if you are work on a document
- 19:44:46 [anthony]
- ... you should the public what you're working on every 3 months
- 19:44:55 [heycam]
- "To this end, each Working Group SHOULD publish in the W3C technical reports index a new draft of each active technical report at least once every three months. An active technical report is a Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, or Proposed Edited Recommendation. Each Working Group MUST publish a new draft of at least one of its active technical reports on the W3C technical reports index [PUB11] at least once every three months."
- 19:44:55 [anthony]
- ... also publishing test suites counts as publication
- 19:45:12 [anthony]
- ... there's a team internal tracking system that detects these things
- 19:45:24 [anthony]
- ... but publishing test suites is a manual process
- 19:45:37 [anthony]
- DS: I think being a public working group it's more clear what we are doing
- 19:45:56 [anthony]
- ED: So does it make sense to discuss the modules we have before going into the layout requirements
- 19:46:03 [ChrisL]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Roadmap
- 19:46:43 [anthony]
- CL: Looking at the road map there is one thing missing from it
- 19:47:01 [anthony]
- ... there is no indication to say if we plan on publishing on that date
- 19:47:07 [anthony]
- ... or if we missed it
- 19:47:22 [Zakim]
- +??P4
- 19:47:22 [anthony]
- ... there should be some styling to show if we achieved it
- 19:47:25 [Zakim]
- -??P4
- 19:47:32 [anthony]
- ... I was actually attempted to edit it
- 19:47:36 [anthony]
- ... so Filters for example
- 19:47:43 [anthony]
- ... we have several publications of that
- 19:47:50 [anthony]
- ... and we should have some links to that
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- 19:48:22 [ChrisL]
- zakim, who is here?
- 19:48:22 [Zakim]
- On the phone I see Shepazu, ed, heycam, anthony, ChrisL
- 19:48:24 [Zakim]
- On IRC I see jwatt, ChrisL, RRSAgent, Zakim, ed, heycam, shepazu, anthony, ed_work, trackbot
- 19:48:28 [anthony]
- ED: Maybe we should go through all the specs
- 19:48:37 [anthony]
- ... Compositing is the first module
- 19:48:54 [jwatt]
- 7841 is being ignored
- 19:49:27 [Zakim]
- +??P4
- 19:49:47 [shepazu]
- we can hear you
- 19:49:52 [jwatt]
- grr
- 19:50:43 [anthony]
- AG: The Compositing module is pretty much ready to go
- 19:50:47 [heycam]
- Zakim, code?
- 19:50:47 [Zakim]
- the conference code is 7841 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), heycam
- 19:50:55 [anthony]
- ... just need to combine the 'enable-background' def
- 19:51:00 [Zakim]
- -??P4
- 19:51:07 [anthony]
- CL: Does it require much effort to get it published
- 19:51:18 [anthony]
- s/CL/ED/
- 19:51:31 [anthony]
- DS: So which working draft is this?
- 19:51:34 [anthony]
- AG: First
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- CL: Requires approval from domain leader
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- +[IPcaller]
- 19:52:40 [ChrisL]
- zakim, who just joined?
- 19:52:40 [Zakim]
- I don't understand your question, ChrisL.
- 19:52:50 [anthony]
- AG: I'd like to merge the enable-background definition before publishing
- 19:53:04 [anthony]
- DS: So how soon can we publish?
- 19:53:13 [anthony]
- AG: Very soon, next Friday at worst
- 19:54:05 [ChrisL]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Roadmap
- 19:54:12 [anthony]
- ACTION: Anthony to Merge 'enable-background' definition to align with Filters module
- 19:54:12 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2412 - Merge 'enable-background' definition to align with Filters module [on Anthony Grasso - due 2009-01-29].
- 19:54:56 [anthony]
- ED: I will call for publication of the module as soon as this action is complete
- 19:55:10 [anthony]
- JW: What version?
- 19:55:19 [ChrisL]
- Resolved: publish Compositing module as FPWD once ACTION-2412 is complete
- 19:55:20 [anthony]
- DS: First Public Working Draf
- 19:55:40 [anthony]
- ED: So next on the list is the Filters module
- 19:55:47 [anthony]
- ... I think we have published this once or twice
- 19:55:48 [shepazu]
- Resolution: publish Compositing module as FPWD once ACTION-2412 is complete
- 19:56:00 [anthony]
- ... I have a huge backlog of actions to do
- 19:56:13 [ChrisL]
- Filters last published 1 May 2007
- 19:56:34 [anthony]
- ... I would have time to do some things while traveling, so the best possible scenario will be I might have something to publish after the Face-to-face
- 19:56:46 [anthony]
- ... I have some things I want to discuss with that
- 19:57:05 [anthony]
- CL: Would it be possible to get a new group draft
- 19:57:14 [anthony]
- ... for the group to read, or is that pushing it?
- 19:57:25 [anthony]
- ED: Yeah I might not have so much time for that
- 19:57:43 [anthony]
- ... I'm going to say looking after the face-to-face for publishing
- 19:57:45 [ChrisL]
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise
- 19:57:49 [anthony]
- ED: The next thing is Gradients
- 19:58:03 [anthony]
- DS: I think that should encompass things like Diffusion Curves
- 19:58:20 [anthony]
- ... we were thinking of things like Gradient Mesh
- 19:58:50 [anthony]
- CL: So we have basic gradients already
- 19:59:07 [anthony]
- ... I made a proposal that wasn't so good
- 19:59:25 [anthony]
- ... then I made a suggestion which uses an algorithm similar to filters
- 19:59:38 [anthony]
- ... but it never got implemented
- 20:00:17 [anthony]
- DS: Can you please send an email to summarise that
- 20:00:27 [ChrisL]
- ACTION: Chris summarise the current state of the trimesh gradient investigations
- 20:00:27 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2413 - Summarise the current state of the trimesh gradient investigations [on Chris Lilley - due 2009-01-29].
- 20:00:43 [anthony]
- ED: We have a Paint Servers module, do we need a Gradients module as well
- 20:01:14 [anthony]
- DS: I think this would go under the Paint Servers obviously
- 20:01:26 [anthony]
- CL: The question is which name would be better
- 20:01:39 [anthony]
- ... Paint Servers is just an internal name
- 20:01:59 [anthony]
- DS: We could call it Paint Servers, Gradients and blah blah blah
- 20:02:16 [anthony]
- ... implementers are the ones that typically read the specs
- 20:02:25 [anthony]
- ... although I could be wrong, designers also
- 20:02:52 [anthony]
- ... is there some term of art that means Paint Servers? Maybe a bit more catchier
- 20:03:12 [anthony]
- CL: SVG 1.1 had patterns, so we need somewhere for those to go
- 20:03:41 [anthony]
- ... I guess Gradients was separate chapter in 1.1
- 20:03:48 [anthony]
- DS: I think it's all the same thing
- 20:03:56 [anthony]
- ... they are applied to fills and strokes
- 20:04:08 [anthony]
- ... ok so there are linear and radial gradients
- 20:04:16 [anthony]
- ... are we going to duplicate stuff in Tiny 1.2?
- 20:04:23 [anthony]
- ... it might nice to have it all in one place
- 20:04:30 [anthony]
- CL: I think the module is adding on
- 20:04:35 [anthony]
- ... rather than duplicating
- 20:04:41 [anthony]
- ED: I agree with that
- 20:04:50 [anthony]
- ... I think that Tiny 1.2 doesn't have all the things from 1.1
- 20:05:22 [anthony]
- DS: So we are going to have to put Radial and Linear in there because we are going to extend them
- 20:05:30 [anthony]
- ... Diffusion Curves or Shaped Gradients
- 20:05:39 [anthony]
- ... we may do the Tri-Mesh
- 20:05:40 [Zakim]
- -ChrisL
- 20:05:43 [anthony]
- ... Patterns
- 20:05:48 [anthony]
- ... Solid Colours
- 20:06:12 [Zakim]
- +ChrisL
- 20:06:36 [anthony]
- AG: What about listing all the colours
- 20:06:47 [anthony]
- DS: Can you reference a raster image as fill?
- 20:06:49 [anthony]
- ED: No
- 20:07:02 [anthony]
- DS: You can as a pattern
- 20:07:11 [anthony]
- DS: I was thinking directly
- 20:07:29 [anthony]
- ED: You can say it's like pattern with some parameters
- 20:07:31 [ChrisL]
- Needs to have resolution independence, like filters have
- 20:07:41 [anthony]
- ... I think that would be quite a natural extension
- 20:07:51 [anthony]
- CL: It needs to work at multiple resolutions
- 20:09:22 [anthony]
- DS: RGBA?
- 20:09:35 [anthony]
- CL: The colours and RGBA are in the CSS Colour module are already there
- 20:09:51 [anthony]
- ... they reference back to SVG 1.1 to define how opacity works
- 20:10:08 [anthony]
- ... it works very simple
- 20:10:20 [anthony]
- ... it has a linear like space which is quite important
- 20:10:28 [anthony]
- ED: There is HSLA
- 20:10:40 [anthony]
- CMC: Should they go in the Compositing module?
- 20:10:57 [anthony]
- ED: They'd have to go in Paint Servers because it defines the syntax
- 20:11:20 [anthony]
- CL: You can put it in the different modules, but you'd probably have different conformance levels
- 20:11:39 [anthony]
- DS: I don't think we define how we treat opacity in PNGs
- 20:11:45 [anthony]
- CL: You're right we don't
- 20:11:55 [anthony]
- DS: These are things we should explicitly state
- 20:12:15 [anthony]
- ED: Who is responsible for Gradients/Paint Servers?
- 20:12:22 [anthony]
- CL: Me
- 20:12:58 [anthony]
- ... the question is where the PNG transparency tests go?
- 20:12:58 [ChrisL]
- ACTION Chris to test PNG transparency and opacity in the SVG 1.1 test suite
- 20:12:58 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2414 - Test PNG transparency and opacity in the SVG 1.1 test suite [on Chris Lilley - due 2009-01-29].
- 20:13:11 [anthony]
- DS: Stick them in 1.1 for now
- 20:13:20 [anthony]
- ED: Do we have a date or any estimation
- 20:13:33 [anthony]
- CL: It will probably be over Vector Effects
- 20:13:38 [anthony]
- s/over/after/
- 20:13:51 [anthony]
- CL: Realistically one will be on hold
- 20:13:59 [anthony]
- ... while I get the other one out
- 20:14:34 [anthony]
- DS: I'm going to remove Gradients from the deliverables roadmap and say it is part of Paint Servers
- 20:14:42 [anthony]
- CL: I'd say April for Paint Servers
- 20:15:06 [anthony]
- ED: So the next one is Layout Requirements and Use Cases
- 20:15:21 [anthony]
- CM: So earlier in the week I started putting somethings in a requirements document
- 20:15:36 [anthony]
- ... Maybe I can get the requirements document done by the Face-to-face
- 20:15:56 [anthony]
- ... my plan was to have something mostly complete for the face-to-face
- 20:16:06 [anthony]
- ... publication of first draft in March
- 20:16:25 [anthony]
- ED: The next one then is the Layout Module
- 20:16:43 [anthony]
- ... so that's related to the requirements
- 20:17:05 [anthony]
- CMC: How about July for the first draft, depending on number of revisions for the requirements
- 20:17:39 [anthony]
- ED: Masking and Clipping is the next one
- 20:17:50 [anthony]
- ... might want to remove it or combine it in the table
- 20:17:59 [anthony]
- ... do we plan any new masking and clipping features?
- 20:18:12 [anthony]
- CL: I can't think of any
- 20:18:22 [anthony]
- DS: The only thing I can think of is the event clipping
- 20:18:31 [ChrisL]
- oh, yes, that should go in
- 20:18:42 [anthony]
- ED: There are a few things I can think of
- 20:18:55 [anthony]
- ... I don't think there is anything stopping us from combining those two
- 20:19:03 [anthony]
- ... next one is Media Access Events
- 20:19:14 [anthony]
- ... have we heard of anything from Ikivo?
- 20:19:24 [anthony]
- DS: I think I had an action to email them
- 20:19:31 [anthony]
- ED: It's relatively close to being done
- 20:19:38 [anthony]
- ... it seems like it anyway
- 20:20:17 [anthony]
- ... Unless we have someone responding from Ikivo we don't have any idea of how long it will be
- 20:20:24 [anthony]
- ... Print
- 20:20:35 [anthony]
- CL: We resolved recently to send that one to CR right
- 20:21:03 [anthony]
- ED: Next one would be Transformations
- 20:21:12 [anthony]
- ... I guess that's the 3D, 2.5D stuff
- 20:21:44 [ChrisL]
- zakim, who is meeting in a bar?
- 20:21:44 [Zakim]
- I don't understand your question, ChrisL.
- 20:22:25 [anthony]
- AG: Just finished the Use Case and Requirements
- 20:22:37 [anthony]
- ... I'd planned on getting feedback at the face-to-face
- 20:24:42 [anthony]
- ... I suspect that it will have a similar time line to the Layout Module
- 20:27:06 [anthony]
- ... Next one is Vector Effects
- 20:27:13 [anthony]
- ... I'm taking the stuff out of the 1.2 Module
- 20:27:29 [anthony]
- ... and splitting out a primer and a language spec
- 20:27:47 [anthony]
- ... there is a bunch of explanation that's need
- 20:27:53 [anthony]
- s/need/needed/
- 20:28:01 [anthony]
- ... I've been adding a bunch of diagrams
- 20:28:18 [anthony]
- ... I've been doing some illustrations which are SVG
- 20:29:33 [anthony]
- ... I'd like to have an illustration that shows putting the fill on top of the stroke. I have a PNG and an SVG of that and I have an example of
- 20:29:41 [anthony]
- ... the code snippet for that
- 20:29:56 [anthony]
- ... I'd like to also have the beginnings of a test suite as well
- 20:30:35 [anthony]
- DS: I'd like to start using inline SVG with PNG fallback
- 20:30:47 [anthony]
- CL: There are some specs that already do that
- 20:32:21 [anthony]
- DS: Like if you were doing an example in SVG, you'd do a mock up of the result rather the put in the specific syntax
- 20:32:52 [anthony]
- ... it's sort of a visual use case and requirements really
- 20:33:22 [anthony]
- CL: So I'd hope to have a First Public Working Draft for the group to look at in the next few weeks
- 20:34:04 [anthony]
- ED: Next spec is Web Fonts
- 20:34:26 [anthony]
- CL: So web fonts was going to be a joint effort, but then CSS got really keen on it
- 20:34:43 [anthony]
- ... so we agreed to drop doing things on our part as long as we can review it closely
- 20:34:59 [anthony]
- ... John Dagget has made a new publications of the spec
- 20:35:08 [anthony]
- ... and I'd like to do a close review of it
- 20:35:47 [anthony]
- ... in general it's good
- 20:36:47 [anthony]
- ... And I've also joined the CSS Working Group
- 20:37:00 [anthony]
- DS: There is one thing that Webfonts will not cover is SVG Fonts
- 20:37:08 [anthony]
- CL: the other thing is the XML syntax for web fonts
- 20:37:18 [anthony]
- ... which is something that XSL is interested in
- 20:37:32 [anthony]
- DS: We might rename our Webfonts module to SVG Fonts
- 20:37:37 [anthony]
- ... and change the scope
- 20:37:49 [anthony]
- ED: Is the latest draft using anything from SVG?
- 20:37:52 [anthony]
- CL: Not really
- 20:38:03 [anthony]
- DS: I thought there was one thing he did add but I could be wrong
- 20:38:13 [ChrisL]
- http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/
- 20:38:22 [anthony]
- CL: that's the link
- 20:39:27 [anthony]
- ED: SVG 1.1 Full 2nd Edition
- 20:39:43 [anthony]
- CL: I saw that there was going to be a discussion at the face-to-face
- 20:39:57 [anthony]
- ... and when we do publish it would be a proposed edited Rec
- 20:40:11 [anthony]
- ... I would say April
- 20:40:20 [anthony]
- ED: We also have to deal with comments on the edits we make?
- 20:40:26 [anthony]
- CL: No it's just an AC review
- 20:41:38 [anthony]
- AG: Might want to triage the edits
- 20:41:43 [anthony]
- ... there are about 50
- 20:42:23 [anthony]
- ED: So April for publication
- 20:42:44 [anthony]
- DS: We are not going to publish until after the face-to-face so that will be March
- 20:42:45 [ChrisL]
- PERin March, so Rec six weeks after
- 20:44:23 [shepazu]
- http://www.w3.org/2007/11/SVG_rechartering/SVG-WG-charter.html#deliverables
- 20:44:24 [anthony]
- ED: So the next is SVG Tiny 1.2
- 20:44:50 [anthony]
- ... I guess there isn't much going on, just collecting errata
- 20:45:02 [anthony]
- ... the next is SVG 1.2 Full Modular
- 20:45:08 [anthony]
- CL: Are we going with that?
- 20:45:21 [anthony]
- ... I guess the red boxes indicate that
- 20:45:25 [anthony]
- ... I'd leave it for now
- 20:46:17 [anthony]
- DS: We have conflicting constraints, some of the WHAT WG and Mozilla don't want to use Tiny 1.2 as a base
- 20:46:22 [anthony]
- ... but JIS do
- 20:46:55 [anthony]
- ... I think we'll be able to resolve this once we know the state of all the modules
- 20:47:09 [anthony]
- ... so we've reached the end we have SVG 2.0 Core
- 20:47:13 [anthony]
- ED: Same thing I guess
- 20:48:16 [anthony]
- DS: Have we done a checked that all the features in 1.1 that are not in 1.2 Tiny are in the modules
- 20:48:27 [anthony]
- CL: No we haven't and I know there are some features missed
- 20:48:38 [ChrisL]
- example of something which is missing: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/media.html#multires
- 20:48:40 [anthony]
- DS: This is why I think having Core simplifies some things
- 20:49:07 [anthony]
- ... because it would save us making artificial modules that collects the bits together
- 20:49:21 [anthony]
- CL: I just gave a link to one
- 20:49:47 [anthony]
- ... multi resolution images
- 20:49:53 [ChrisL]
- Alternate content based on display resolutions
- 20:50:15 [anthony]
- DS: We don't specify foreignObject very well
- 20:50:59 [shepazu]
- http://www.schepers.cc/svg/blendups/embedding.html
- 20:51:01 [ed]
- ...and we should mention html
- 20:52:00 [anthony]
- ... object, iframe and embed should behave the same way
- 20:52:24 [anthony]
- ED: I think iframe is a bit special in this case
- 20:52:30 [anthony]
- ... because it can give you scroll bars
- 20:52:41 [anthony]
- DS: But you can actually do that with object and embed as well
- 20:52:51 [anthony]
- ED: Right, but there are different defaults at play
- 20:53:57 [anthony]
- DS: There is another aspect in that whole question. When you are embedding it, how does the sizing work?
- 20:54:05 [anthony]
- ... we don't really address that anywhere
- 20:54:10 [anthony]
- JW: It's better address in Tiny
- 20:54:15 [anthony]
- ... the bases are covered
- 20:54:24 [anthony]
- ... there are a few weird edge cases
- 20:54:28 [anthony]
- ... that I don't expect anyone to hit
- 20:54:45 [anthony]
- DS: I have a table and a chart of how it should behave
- 20:55:00 [anthony]
- ... and I think Opera has the most sensible behaviour
- 20:56:48 [anthony]
- ED: So this kind of thing would be nice to have in the SVG spec
- 20:56:53 [anthony]
- DS: you mean the table?
- 20:56:59 [anthony]
- ED: Something similar to this
- 20:57:04 [anthony]
- ... tests would be great
- 20:57:18 [anthony]
- ... we only test SVG, not how you can use it from other languages
- 20:57:30 [anthony]
- DS: So you're right it is something more of the CDF domain
- 20:57:46 [anthony]
- ... there are certain things about foreignObject that we need to clarify
- 20:58:35 [anthony]
- Topic: Testing Framework
- 20:58:47 [anthony]
- JW: I'm not sure exactly what state it is in this point
- 20:58:58 [anthony]
- ... I haven't looked in to how the testing is done at the moment
- 20:59:14 [anthony]
- ... basically what I was thinking was, that I'd like to see a testing frame work
- 20:59:30 [anthony]
- ... or a format for tests that we can automate the tests
- 20:59:35 [anthony]
- ... for the sake of interoperability
- 20:59:50 [anthony]
- ... recycle things into a common frame work
- 21:00:05 [anthony]
- ... it's a bit of a shame for interoperability if we test different things
- 21:00:19 [anthony]
- ... I'd like to explain at the face-to-face our frame work
- 21:00:30 [anthony]
- ... and see if we can combine things
- 21:00:52 [anthony]
- DS: I didn't want Anthony to go to far down the road if we are going to do more changes to the framework
- 21:01:01 [anthony]
- ... you'd talked about making automated tests
- 21:01:21 [anthony]
- ... automated generation might be good for some things like DOM tests
- 21:01:36 [anthony]
- ... but you were talking about something like regression tests
- 21:01:58 [anthony]
- JW: Currently it's a bit tricky to do it because it uses custom builds only
- 21:02:19 [anthony]
- ... I've already got that framework hacked up to work for I.E. and we have another one set up for rendering
- 21:02:34 [anthony]
- CL: Are you capturing the image then comparing it?
- 21:02:41 [anthony]
- ... how are you comparing rendering?
- 21:03:06 [anthony]
- JW: It becomes a bit of a mess when you have different fonts on a different PCs
- 21:03:10 [anthony]
- ... for exmample
- 21:03:20 [anthony]
- s/exmample/example/
- 21:03:55 [anthony]
- JW: We test things like the arc command which has the mark up to draw a circle
- 21:04:03 [anthony]
- ... then we compare that to a circle
- 21:04:56 [anthony]
- DS: In some of Dr Olaf's tests it goes through some permutations
- 21:04:59 [anthony]
- ... if red shows up
- 21:05:03 [anthony]
- ... then it fails
- 21:05:20 [anthony]
- ... so you could say for example if red comes up in my buffer then something is wrong
- 21:05:46 [anthony]
- JW: You could do things like load your test but then tell the frame work to not get a snap shot
- 21:06:06 [anthony]
- ... for animation it shouldn't be too hard to extend it
- 21:06:16 [anthony]
- ... you can get various snap shots at points in time
- 21:06:40 [anthony]
- ... not sure if people think it's worth pursuing
- 21:06:54 [anthony]
- DS: One thing I like is we spent so much time, whole face-to-faces infact
- 21:07:05 [anthony]
- ... if we can get this done in an hour
- 21:07:11 [anthony]
- ... it would be so much better
- 21:07:32 [anthony]
- ... this would be a very different testing methodology than we do at the moment
- 21:07:57 [anthony]
- JW: There are a lot of technical problems, political problems, and social problems
- 21:08:19 [anthony]
- ... one of the biggest problems though is interoperability
- 21:08:53 [anthony]
- ... which is one of the disadvantages of open standards
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- -ChrisL
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- -heycam
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- -ed
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- -Shepazu
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- GA_SVGWG()2:30PM has ended
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- Attendees were Shepazu, ed, heycam, [IPcaller], anthony, ChrisL
- 21:26:08 [anthony]
- Zakim, bye
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- RRSAgent, make minutes
- 21:26:14 [RRSAgent]
- I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/01/22-svg-minutes.html anthony
- 21:46:31 [shepazu]
- jwatt: I'm going to take a nap... why don't we do this tomorrow?
- 22:00:21 [jwatt]
- shepazu: sure. I got sidetracked anyway
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- "There is no official roadmap for IE9, but native SVG support is likely." -- http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/more-details-ab.html
- 22:12:07 [heycam]
- anybody read the actual web chat logs?
- 22:13:04 [heycam]
- http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/default.mspx
- 22:13:34 [heycam]
- ah, no transcript
- 23:35:26 [anthony]
- http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/default.mspx
- 23:35:54 [anthony]
- oh wait no transcripts on IE9