IRC log of svg on 2009-05-20
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- Zakim, this will be GA_SVGWG
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- ok, trackbot, I see GA_SVGWG()2:30AM already started
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- Meeting: SVG Working Group Teleconference
- 06:31:56 [trackbot]
- Date: 20 May 2009
- 06:32:00 [Zakim]
- +Doug_Schepers
- 06:32:30 [Zakim]
- +[IPcaller]
- 06:32:41 [Zakim]
- +??P2
- 06:32:46 [ed]
- Zakim, [IPcaller] is me
- 06:32:46 [Zakim]
- +ed; got it
- 06:32:50 [Zakim]
- +??P3
- 06:32:53 [anthony]
- Zakim, ??P2 is me
- 06:32:53 [Zakim]
- +anthony; got it
- 06:33:04 [jwatt]
- Zakim, ??P3 is me
- 06:33:04 [Zakim]
- +jwatt; got it
- 06:33:33 [ed]
- Zakim, pick a victim
- 06:33:33 [Zakim]
- Not knowing who is chairing or who scribed recently, I propose ed
- 06:33:35 [ed]
- Zakim, pick a victim
- 06:33:35 [Zakim]
- Not knowing who is chairing or who scribed recently, I propose Doug_Schepers
- 06:33:52 [anthony]
- Chair: Erik
- 06:33:55 [anthony]
- Scribe: anthony
- 06:34:09 [ed]
- Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2009AprJun/0144.html
- 06:34:40 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2271 - Add mechanism for variable stroke width (as in calligraphy)
- 06:34:44 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2271?
- 06:34:44 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2271 -- Add mechanism for variable stroke width (as in calligraphy) -- RAISED
- 06:34:44 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2271
- 06:35:09 [anthony]
- ED: For us to consider way of doing variable stroke widths
- 06:35:22 [anthony]
- ... this is feature that's been requested a couple of times
- 06:35:40 [anthony]
- DS: I pointed to the threads there
- 06:35:45 [anthony]
- ... I pointed to my very early proposal
- 06:35:58 [anthony]
- ... not sure exactly how we should do it
- 06:36:18 [anthony]
- ... may or may not be able to do it with Vector Effects
- 06:36:32 [anthony]
- ... it's not hard to do this, it's just had to figure out the right way to specify these things
- 06:36:54 [anthony]
- ED: There is a mention here of one of the inkscape implementors
- 06:37:00 [anthony]
- ... have you spoken to him?
- 06:37:10 [anthony]
- DS: No, but he's very supportive of having this
- 06:37:23 [anthony]
- ... most Inkscape implementers like the idea
- 06:37:27 [anthony]
- ... they've implemented something
- 06:37:32 [anthony]
- ... but they just do it as a path
- 06:37:39 [anthony]
- s/implementors/implementers/
- 06:37:48 [anthony]
- DS: We should do a little more research into how we could do it
- 06:38:47 [anthony]
- ED: Two things to do
- 06:38:52 [anthony]
- ... talk to the Inkscape guys
- 06:39:01 [anthony]
- ... and gather use case and requirements on the wiki
- 06:39:23 [anthony]
- ACTION: Doug to Contact the Inkscape guys regarding variable stroke width (ideas, requirements)
- 06:39:24 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2563 - Contact the Inkscape guys regarding variable stroke width (ideas, requirements) [on Doug Schepers - due 2009-05-27].
- 06:41:33 [heycam]
- shepazu, when you've uploaded the errata document and test cases could you ping me, and then i'll mail out the notification to www-svg mentioning the changes, thanks.
- 06:41:48 [chrisl]
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- 06:41:55 [anthony]
- Regrets: Cameron
- 06:42:11 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2015 - Should the svg element provide a duration element?
- 06:42:14 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2015
- 06:42:15 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2015?
- 06:42:16 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2015 -- Should the svg element provide a duration element? -- RAISED
- 06:42:16 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2015
- 06:43:01 [anthony]
- ED: This is about specifying intrinsic animation have an animation and want to use it in another file
- 06:43:07 [anthony]
- ... and you want to specify the duration
- 06:43:15 [anthony]
- ... we don't have a way to specify the duration at the moment
- 06:43:50 [anthony]
- AG: Has Opera done anything like this?
- 06:44:04 [anthony]
- ED: I think it would be easy to add a 'dur' attribute to the SVG root element
- 06:44:15 [anthony]
- ... I'd be in favour of this
- 06:44:21 [anthony]
- ... the question is where would this go
- 06:44:24 [Zakim]
- +ChrisL
- 06:44:28 [anthony]
- ... in the structure chapter perhaps
- 06:44:34 [anthony]
- ... we don't have this as a module though
- 06:45:01 [anthony]
- ... we could add this to the main module
- 06:45:12 [anthony]
- ... or we could split the structure chapter into a module
- 06:45:19 [anthony]
- ... or a third option is specify this in a small file
- 06:45:23 [anthony]
- ... and stick it somewhere
- 06:45:59 [anthony]
- ... it would be useful to have something like this because it would animations much easier to reuse
- 06:46:30 [anthony]
- AG: I agree with putting it on the root element
- 06:46:52 [anthony]
- CL: This is so when an SVG is reference by another SVG element you say what the duration is?
- 06:46:54 [anthony]
- ED: Yes
- 06:47:08 [anthony]
- CL: Why can't you say that in the SVG itself
- 06:47:15 [anthony]
- ... on the animation element
- 06:47:39 [anthony]
- ED: You can specify the duration as a media on the animation element
- 06:47:57 [anthony]
- ... it's a good way of saying in the file how long your animation runs for
- 06:48:05 [ed]
- s/media/dur="media"/
- 06:49:33 [Zakim]
- -jwatt
- 06:49:56 [anthony]
- AG: What about if the intrinsic duration was shorter than an animation in the file?
- 06:50:07 [anthony]
- ED: I guess the intrinsic duration is good for repeats
- 06:50:17 [anthony]
- ... may cut off the animation
- 06:50:50 [anthony]
- AG: I don't really have an opinion on it
- 06:51:12 [anthony]
- ED: I could email Julien to see what he thinks and what behaviour he'd expect
- 06:51:19 [anthony]
- ... I can also try this out in Opera
- 06:52:11 [anthony]
- ACTION: Erik to Email Julien regarding intrinsic animation idea and what behaviour he'd expect
- 06:52:11 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2564 - Email Julien regarding intrinsic animation idea and what behaviour he'd expect [on Erik Dahlström - due 2009-05-27].
- 06:52:33 [Zakim]
- +??P3
- 06:52:37 [jwatt]
- Zakim, ??P3 is me
- 06:52:37 [Zakim]
- +jwatt; got it
- 06:52:43 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2022 - The activation behaviour of <a> elements should be defined
- 06:52:46 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2022?
- 06:52:46 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2022 -- The activation behaviour of <a> elements should be defined -- RAISED
- 06:52:46 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2022
- 06:53:09 [anthony]
- ED: I had a look at the Tiny 1.2 spec
- 06:53:13 [anthony]
- ... it doesn't say that much
- 06:53:20 [anthony]
- ... doesn't have the text wording
- 06:53:27 [anthony]
- ... discussed in this issue
- 06:53:40 [anthony]
- ... we discussed it but I can't remember why it wasn't included in Tiny 1.2
- 06:53:47 [anthony]
- ... It looks like good wording to have
- 06:54:20 [chrisl]
- suggested text looks good to me.
- 06:54:27 [anthony]
- CL: Text looks good to me
- 06:54:33 [chrisl]
- clarifies, does not change conformance
- 06:54:36 [anthony]
- ED: Would this be ok to add as an errata
- 06:55:06 [anthony]
- ACTION: Anthony to Add the wording discussed in ISSUE-2022 to the Tiny 1.2 errata
- 06:55:06 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2565 - Add the wording discussed in ISSUE-2022 to the Tiny 1.2 errata [on Anthony Grasso - due 2009-05-27].
- 06:55:43 [anthony]
- AG: Category 3?
- 06:55:47 [anthony]
- CL: Yes I think so
- 06:56:00 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2024 - Elements for which "defer" can be used in preserveAspectRatio=""
- 06:56:04 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2024?
- 06:56:04 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2024 -- Elements for which "defer" can be used in preserveAspectRatio="" -- RAISED
- 06:56:04 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2024
- 06:56:34 [anthony]
- ED: Can have defer inside of a preserveAspectRatio attribute
- 06:56:35 [chrisl]
- rrsagent, here
- 06:56:35 [RRSAgent]
- See http://www.w3.org/2009/05/20-svg-irc#T06-56-35
- 06:57:10 [anthony]
- JW: You can't reference an SVG from the image element
- 06:57:15 [anthony]
- ED: In Tiny 1.2 you can't
- 06:57:20 [anthony]
- ... in Full 1.1 you can
- 06:57:28 [anthony]
- s/element/element?/
- 06:57:53 [anthony]
- ... this is basically 1.2 Tiny errata?
- 06:58:13 [anthony]
- ... personally I think it's good to reference SVG images in the image element
- 06:58:20 [anthony]
- ... and they be static images
- 06:58:27 [anthony]
- ... similar to the img tag in HTML behaves
- 06:58:33 [anthony]
- JW: As similar as possible
- 06:58:48 [anthony]
- CL: SVG Full 1.1 was a bit ambiguous about that
- 06:58:56 [anthony]
- ... and didn't really say what happened
- 06:59:02 [anthony]
- ... we really need to clarify that as well
- 06:59:15 [anthony]
- ED: This basically splits into two actions
- 06:59:18 [anthony]
- ... one for fixing Tiny 1.2
- 06:59:43 [anthony]
- ... and one for clarifying 2.0 Full
- 07:00:00 [anthony]
- AG: Should it be an Issue on 2.0 and an action on Tiny 1.2?
- 07:00:06 [ed]
- http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/coords.html#PreserveAspectRatioAttribute
- 07:00:35 [anthony]
- ED: I think that would be a small fix up
- 07:01:05 [anthony]
- ... and I don't think it would effect conformance
- 07:01:19 [anthony]
- CL: So you're saying that it already says you can't reference images?
- 07:01:23 [anthony]
- ... which spec?
- 07:01:30 [anthony]
- ED: In the linking chapter
- 07:01:31 [ed]
- http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/linking.html#ReferenceRestrictions
- 07:01:42 [anthony]
- ED: In the table here
- 07:02:22 [anthony]
- ... the Image element is listed here
- 07:02:29 [anthony]
- ... won't get any visible results
- 07:02:53 [ed]
- a reference to an SVG document in <image> would be an invalid IRI reference, and would mean the element doesn't render
- 07:03:53 [anthony]
- ED: This would be category 2 then
- 07:05:24 [anthony]
- ACTION: Anthony to Add an errata item for Tiny 1.2 to remove the mention of "defer" in the image text
- 07:05:24 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2566 - Add an errata item for Tiny 1.2 to remove the mention of "defer" in the image text [on Anthony Grasso - due 2009-05-27].
- 07:05:54 [ed]
- to remove 'image' in the defer wording really, but ok :)
- 07:06:04 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2040 (Related to ISSUE-2045) - Consider adding placeholders or fallback for unresolved resources
- 07:06:09 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2040?
- 07:06:09 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2040 -- Consider adding placeholders or fallback for unresolved resources -- RAISED
- 07:06:09 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2040
- 07:07:23 [anthony]
- ED: About having a way to fallback when something is unresolved, like an image
- 07:07:29 [anthony]
- CL: Like a broken image icon?
- 07:07:46 [anthony]
- ED: In Tiny 1.2 when the link is broken you get an invalid IRI reference
- 07:07:52 [anthony]
- ... and nothing is rendered
- 07:07:57 [anthony]
- ... so you don't know it's missing
- 07:08:06 [anthony]
- JW: Could this be done with a CSS property
- 07:08:26 [anthony]
- ... it seems like that it's something common with specs
- 07:08:55 [anthony]
- ED: What type of CSS property where you thinking of?
- 07:08:59 [anthony]
- JW: Something new
- 07:09:06 [anthony]
- ... dunno what it would be called
- 07:09:28 [anthony]
- CL: The initial value would be the current behaviour
- 07:09:36 [anthony]
- ... then do you point to a certain image?
- 07:09:50 [anthony]
- ... or a browser broken image picture?
- 07:09:58 [anthony]
- ... we should avoid binary values
- 07:10:20 [anthony]
- ... what about point to something else in the same file
- 07:10:28 [anthony]
- ... where you say draw this if the image doesn't load
- 07:10:37 [anthony]
- JW: I was thinking about the HTML img tag
- 07:10:49 [ed]
- s/img/object/
- 07:11:15 [anthony]
- CL: the object element allows you to have a child that displays the fallback content
- 07:11:24 [anthony]
- ... then in SMIL and SVG tend to do that with a switch
- 07:11:29 [anthony]
- ... not clear on what the condition would be
- 07:11:42 [anthony]
- ... another possibly would to evaluate whether the thing loaded
- 07:11:52 [anthony]
- DS: At one point we had wording in SVG Tiny 1.2
- 07:12:07 [anthony]
- ... that talked about what to do for fallback behaviour of raster images
- 07:12:10 [anthony]
- ... we took it out
- 07:12:13 [chrisl]
- in general we seem to use switch here, so a test attribute looks like good solution
- 07:12:14 [anthony]
- ... and I can't remember why
- 07:12:25 [anthony]
- JW: That's an interesting suggestion Chris
- 07:12:46 [anthony]
- CL: So this is something that evaluates to True if the IRI reference is resolved
- 07:12:59 [anthony]
- ... then obviously you could draw anything you wanted to
- 07:13:01 [anthony]
- ... text, image
- 07:13:10 [anthony]
- JW: Like in the object tag
- 07:13:15 [anthony]
- ... you can have nested objects
- 07:13:18 [anthony]
- ... until you find something that works
- 07:13:50 [anthony]
- ... I think it would be a good idea to have a cross spec solution
- 07:13:57 [anthony]
- CL: HTML has multiple ways of doing it
- 07:14:14 [anthony]
- ... I think currently if you put child content of an image it wouldn't be used as a fallback
- 07:14:34 [anthony]
- JW: I think that if you put this property in and it's consistent then it's something
- 07:14:42 [anthony]
- ... that could be deployed across documents
- 07:14:54 [anthony]
- ... I guess I need to come up with a more concrete suggestion
- 07:15:00 [anthony]
- ED: Two problems that we want to solve
- 07:15:12 [anthony]
- ... what to rendered if the content didn't specify and fallback and the link is broken
- 07:15:28 [anthony]
- ... and if you want some particular fallback behaviour how do you specify that
- 07:15:36 [anthony]
- ... the first one is a bit more easy to solve
- 07:15:44 [anthony]
- CL: We already have some of the options here
- 07:16:26 [anthony]
- ... At one point opera gives you a checkerboard if an image was broken
- 07:16:32 [anthony]
- ED: We used to
- 07:16:54 [anthony]
- CL: We got one of the options which is don't display anything
- 07:17:03 [anthony]
- ... the other two options there is no way to indicate what you want
- 07:17:12 [anthony]
- ED: There is external resources required
- 07:17:20 [anthony]
- ... which gives you an indication that something is broken
- 07:17:43 [anthony]
- CL: If we did have that for the switch case
- 07:18:03 [anthony]
- ... on the branch of the switch that has an image, you could put on there something says fail silently
- 07:18:17 [anthony]
- ... the reason I like the switch idea, is we already do that sort of thing
- 07:18:27 [anthony]
- ... we just need a test attribute to say if the link loaded or not
- 07:18:33 [anthony]
- JW: There scenarios?
- 07:18:45 [anthony]
- CL: A.svg points to an image
- 07:18:53 [anthony]
- ... only display it if it's completely correct
- 07:19:04 [anthony]
- ... option B is you fail silently
- 07:19:15 [anthony]
- ... option C is you fail with a visible indication
- 07:19:23 [anthony]
- ... don't have a way to specify B or C currently
- 07:19:42 [anthony]
- ... I suppose option D is the author provides a fallback and say explicitly what's to happen
- 07:19:51 [jwatt]
- so I guess I was thinking of a CSS property something like this: on-failure-display: nothing | children | error-pattern
- 07:20:22 [anthony]
- CL: Error-pattern, would that be a link?
- 07:20:43 [chrisl]
- ok so error-pattern means the default browser indication
- 07:21:04 [jwatt]
- so I guess rather than error-pattern, you could want two things
- 07:21:17 [jwatt]
- an error pattern specified by the spec and supplied by the UA
- 07:21:38 [jwatt]
- or a link to another piece of markup in the doc, sort of like a <use>
- 07:21:43 [jwatt]
- to provide your own pattern
- 07:21:59 [anthony]
- ED: Might be a way of solving it
- 07:22:16 [anthony]
- ... Suggest that the default value works based on what element it is on
- 07:22:39 [anthony]
- ... that's slightly different from Chris's idea of switching
- 07:22:58 [anthony]
- JW: It's not impossible to have two and decide which one is better
- 07:23:32 [anthony]
- ... going to other groups and figure out their requirements and get feedback
- 07:23:52 [anthony]
- CL: Would you be prepared to write up an email to CSS and HTML with the proposal?
- 07:24:51 [jwatt]
- s/decide which/let the user decide which/
- 07:25:09 [anthony]
- ... I think it would be just the CSS group that would have feedback
- 07:25:50 [chrisl]
- trackbot, status
- 07:26:46 [anthony]
- ACTION: Jonathan to Write up an email proposing the JWatt idea for fallback behaviour
- 07:26:46 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2567 - Write up an email proposing the JWatt idea for fallback behaviour [on Jonathan Watt - due 2009-05-27].
- 07:27:11 [anthony]
- ACTION: Chris to Write up an email proposing the Chris idea for fallback behaviour
- 07:27:11 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2568 - Write up an email proposing the Chris idea for fallback behaviour [on Chris Lilley - due 2009-05-27].
- 07:27:51 [anthony]
- ED: In the agenda I mention this issues is related to ISSUE-2045
- 07:28:00 [anthony]
- ... I'm not completely sure that this is exactly the same ore not
- 07:28:06 [anthony]
- ... but we have two that are very similar
- 07:28:11 [anthony]
- ... that issue has a note on it
- 07:28:17 [anthony]
- ... that comes from Bugzilla
- 07:28:21 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2045?
- 07:28:21 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2045 -- Consider adding fallback behavior -- RAISED
- 07:28:21 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2045
- 07:29:09 [anthony]
- ED: I'm just wondering if the issues are different in someway or if we can close one of them
- 07:31:37 [anthony]
- AG: They look the same
- 07:31:52 [anthony]
- ... could close 2045 and add a note to 2040
- 07:31:55 [anthony]
- ED: Ok, I'll do that
- 07:33:44 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2054 - Consider removing the requirement for @width and @height for <foreignObject>
- 07:33:47 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2054?
- 07:33:47 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2054 -- Consider removing the requirement for @width and @height for <foreignObject> -- RAISED
- 07:33:47 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2054
- 07:34:52 [anthony]
- CL: If you don't have width and height how do you figure out
- 07:34:56 [anthony]
- ... where to put it
- 07:35:02 [anthony]
- ... and how big it should be
- 07:35:17 [anthony]
- ED: The thing I was thinking of was use the width and height CSS properties
- 07:35:22 [anthony]
- ... allow them to define the size
- 07:35:31 [anthony]
- ... this mentions particularly MathML
- 07:36:12 [anthony]
- ... if you don't know what the size of the thing you embedded
- 07:36:18 [anthony]
- ... like the size of the MathML
- 07:36:40 [anthony]
- CL: Normally when we draw something you say what size it is
- 07:36:56 [anthony]
- ... what's the motivation for removing it?
- 07:37:02 [anthony]
- ... the audio case is different
- 07:37:18 [anthony]
- ... but for something that renders you'd want to say how big it is
- 07:37:36 [anthony]
- ... for audio the width and height would be 0
- 07:37:54 [anthony]
- ED: The audio wouldn't be heard
- 07:38:05 [anthony]
- CL: I seem to remember we discussed what was part of the render tree
- 07:38:10 [anthony]
- ... and if it was visual only
- 07:38:36 [anthony]
- ED: I do think it would be interesting to see if the width height CSS properties could be used
- 07:38:51 [anthony]
- ... such as the case where you have the SVG root element inside an XHTML document
- 07:39:25 [anthony]
- ... and you have width and height in CSS
- 07:39:32 [anthony]
- ... the size is negotiated
- 07:39:58 [anthony]
- ... so it probably be possible to do something with the elements that use width and height
- 07:40:08 [anthony]
- ... It would go inline with what Doug was suggesting
- 07:40:17 [anthony]
- ... which is make the SVG attributes into properties
- 07:40:44 [anthony]
- ... I would personally think that it would be interesting to specify width and height in CSS
- 07:40:54 [anthony]
- ... for the case where you have a bunch of images
- 07:41:10 [anthony]
- ... would there be any problems with trying to specifying something like this
- 07:41:20 [anthony]
- CL: Depends, I'd like to see how it would work
- 07:41:43 [anthony]
- ... need to consider the geometrical layout which is crucial for SVG
- 07:42:05 [anthony]
- ACTION: Erik to Draft a proposal to have width and height properties
- 07:42:05 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2569 - Draft a proposal to have width and height properties [on Erik Dahlström - due 2009-05-27].
- 07:44:47 [anthony]
- Topic: ISSUE-2042
- 07:44:52 [anthony]
- ISSUE-2042?
- 07:44:52 [trackbot]
- ISSUE-2042 -- Consider adding adding non-NS linking syntax -- RAISED
- 07:44:52 [trackbot]
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2042
- 07:45:37 [anthony]
- ED: This us for consider adopting link:href in svg as href
- 07:45:49 [anthony]
- ... there has been a thread going on in SVG www
- 07:46:01 [anthony]
- ... I think Robin B seemed to be against it
- 07:46:16 [anthony]
- CL: That's odd in his XML paper he was arguing the other way
- 07:46:36 [anthony]
- ... maybe he's saying the change is too much now we already got it
- 07:46:43 [anthony]
- ED: That's the impression I got
- 07:46:47 [anthony]
- ... it would be a pretty big change
- 07:46:53 [anthony]
- ... to have some kind of alias
- 07:47:07 [anthony]
- ... it would be kind of messy at least in a transitional phase
- 07:47:17 [anthony]
- CL: We would need to say what happens if you put in both
- 07:47:25 [anthony]
- ... xlink:href and href
- 07:47:35 [anthony]
- ED: Some chases where it is problematic
- 07:47:41 [anthony]
- ... HTML uses different names
- 07:47:49 [anthony]
- ... for the hrefs on different tags
- 07:47:56 [anthony]
- CL: It's not only href
- 07:48:10 [anthony]
- ... there is somethings that give a src vs href functionality
- 07:48:14 [anthony]
- ... which mean different things
- 07:48:25 [anthony]
- ED: The question is then, is that more confusing
- 07:48:28 [anthony]
- ... ore less confusing
- 07:48:59 [anthony]
- CL: xlink:href always had an attribute that says whether it's replace or embed
- 07:49:14 [chrisl]
- s/:href//
- 07:49:37 [anthony]
- ED: xlink:show maybe?
- 07:49:40 [anthony]
- CL: That's the one
- 07:49:58 [anthony]
- ED: And we probably have about zero tests for that?
- 07:50:08 [anthony]
- CL: Right, but it's providing metadata
- 07:50:22 [anthony]
- ... it's telling something that knows about xlink but not about SVG what to do
- 07:50:41 [anthony]
- ... of course the number things that understand xlink and not SVG is zero
- 07:50:50 [anthony]
- ... this has come up before in discussion
- 07:51:01 [anthony]
- ... that if you were going to redesign xlink how would you do it
- 07:51:12 [anthony]
- ... they'd be remapped to ref and src
- 07:51:33 [anthony]
- ED: There are three values new, replace, embed
- 07:52:02 [anthony]
- CL: Instead of taking a single attribute that takes the URI, you'd have three ones that would take the URI and tell you what to do with it
- 07:52:11 [ed]
- (xlink spec says also 'other' and 'none')
- 07:52:22 [anthony]
- ... there are other things that xlink does as well
- 07:52:27 [anthony]
- ... which xlink:rel
- 07:52:33 [anthony]
- ... specifies relationships
- 07:52:54 [anthony]
- ED: If we were to replace or make a new name for the hrefs, which would be?
- 07:53:07 [anthony]
- CL: I'd tend to favour replacing href
- 07:53:28 [anthony]
- ED: And that would be overriding or the same?
- 07:53:42 [anthony]
- CL: It depends on our fallback strategy
- 07:54:02 [anthony]
- ... depends on if people want to write content that worked in both
- 07:54:17 [anthony]
- ... could have a similar situation with xml:id
- 07:54:50 [anthony]
- ... one possibility is you can specify href every where xlink:href can be put
- 07:54:55 [anthony]
- ... href takes priority
- 07:55:06 [anthony]
- ED: I'd make content with href and have a script
- 07:55:09 [anthony]
- ... that fixes it
- 07:55:12 [anthony]
- ... for older implementations
- 07:55:18 [anthony]
- ... there are some cases where that doesn't work
- 07:55:35 [anthony]
- ... I guess we should the whole thread on www-svg
- 07:55:38 [anthony]
- ... together
- 07:55:56 [anthony]
- ... then propose something, based on what everyone is saying
- 07:57:57 [anthony]
- ACTION: Chris to Go through the www-svg list regarding link:href and make a proposal based on the feedback
- 07:57:57 [trackbot]
- Created ACTION-2570 - Go through the www-svg list regarding link:href and make a proposal based on the feedback [on Chris Lilley - due 2009-05-27].
- 07:59:16 [Zakim]
- -ed
- 07:59:17 [Zakim]
- -ChrisL
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- -anthony
- 07:59:20 [Zakim]
- -jwatt
- 08:01:21 [anthony]
- Zakim, bye
- 08:01:21 [Zakim]
- leaving. As of this point the attendees were Doug_Schepers, ed, anthony, jwatt, ChrisL
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- 08:01:26 [anthony]
- RRSAgent, make minutes
- 08:01:26 [RRSAgent]
- I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/05/20-svg-minutes.html anthony
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