IRC log of svg on 2014-02-27

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Meeting: SVG Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 27 February 2014
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+[IPcaller]
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20:30:04 [ed]
Zakim, [IP is me
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+ed; got it
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+??P6
20:30:34 [ed]
Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2014Feb/0091.html
20:30:36 [krit]
zakim, who is on the call?
20:30:36 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Thomas_Smailus, krit, ed, ??P6
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chair: ed
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+[IPcaller]
20:30:54 [stakagi]
Zakim, ??P6 is me
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+stakagi; got it
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Zakim, [ is me
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+birtles; got it
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+[IPcaller]
20:31:05 [heycam]
Zakim, [ is me
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+heycam; got it
20:31:50 [ed]
Zakim, pick a scribe
20:31:50 [Zakim]
Not knowing who is chairing or who scribed recently, I propose stakagi
20:32:37 [heycam]
Scribe: Cameron
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ScribeNick: heycam
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Topic: Another update on Leipzig meeting venue
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krit: I checked two different venues in Leipzig
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birtles: takagai-san also found one venue
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krit: there are different possibilities
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birtles: KDDI have offered to help with the cost of hosting for the meeting room
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+Tav
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krit: there are different meeting rooms that we/KDDI can choose from
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birtles: some people have already travel assuming those dates we originally decided on
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krit: 10th or 9th?
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heycam: Monday-Thursday, whatever those dates were
20:35:31 [Zakim]
+??P10
20:35:38 [nikos]
Zakim, ?P10 is me
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sorry, nikos, I do not recognize a party named '?P10'
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birtles: he would like to keep those dates
20:35:43 [nikos]
Zakim, ??P10 is me
20:35:43 [Zakim]
+nikos; got it
20:35:54 [heycam]
heycam: I think it's fine to leave those dates
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ed: do we have a name of the venue that KDDI found?
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krit: I will pass on my finds to takagi-san, and will update the wiki page when we've decided
20:37:06 [ed]
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/F2F/Leipzig_2014
20:37:11 [heycam]
heycam: I can bring teleconference equipment
20:37:17 [Zakim]
+Doug_Schepers
20:37:27 [shepazu]
q+
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+Rich_Schwerdtfeger
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+cabanier
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ACTION: Cameron to set up Leipzig meeting questionairre
20:38:55 [trackbot]
Created ACTION-3596 - Set up leipzig meeting questionairre [on Cameron McCormack - due 2014-03-06].
20:39:22 [heycam]
Topic: Why does SVGMatrix.rotateFromVector(x, y) throw on y=0? (ISSUE-2457)
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ed: I was reading through the matrix things and found this one, which is defined in SVG differently from how it's defined in the new DOMMatrix spec
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... was wondering if this was something we might change in our spec, or if we should just reference DOMMatrix from SVG 2
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krit: the idea is that we replace SVGMatrix with DOMMatrix
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... which of course depends on how fast we can progress DOMMatrix
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... there is some pushback form other orgs
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... we can update the SVGMatrix for now, to use the definition we have in DOMMatrix
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... the reason why SVGMatrix has the issue is that it is a division by zero for certain rotations
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... I think we should just change it
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ed: the y parameter you don't really need to divide by 0
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ISSUE-2457?
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ISSUE-2457 -- Why does svgmatrix.rotatefromvector(x,y) throw on y=0? -- raised
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http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2457
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heycam: what do we do for (0, 0)?
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krit: DOMMatrix says the matrix is unmodified
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... we treat that as angle 0
20:42:44 [krit]
http://www.w3.org/TR/matrix/#widl-DOMMatrix-rotateFromVector-DOMMatrix-unrestricted-double-x-unrestricted-double-y
20:42:59 [ed]
the issue link has links to the various spec defintions (and atan)
20:43:25 [heycam]
heycam: I think it's fine to just update SVG 2 with this change and wait to reference DOMMatrix once it's more stable/accepted
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ACTION: Erik to define SVGMatrix.rotateFromVector(0,0) in SVG 2 not to throw
20:43:48 [trackbot]
Created ACTION-3597 - Define svgmatrix.rotatefromvector(0,0) in svg 2 not to throw [on Erik Dahlström - due 2014-03-06].
20:44:07 [heycam]
Topic: Review of feature needs & use cases for technical/engineering diagrams using SVG
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ThomasSmailus: I've broken out some things I talked about at the F2F
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... still working with some of the graphics engineers here at Boeing for some more precise examples
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... closer to be able to nail down a concrete explanation of the features
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... what I wanted to get from the group was some guidance on the right process to propose the additions to the spec to make this happen
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... also objections/issues with the use cases, would be glad to hear those
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heycam: can you summarise the features which aren't supported currently?
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ThomasSmailus: text height, as an analog to the textWIdth="" attribute
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... this isn't as critical, but it's a nice to have, where more precise control of text height would be important
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... next is non-scaling line widths, dash/line patterns, and hatch patterns
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... where the displayed pattern/stroke appears the same at any zoom level
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... finally the engineering line types/definitions
20:46:52 [ed]
(for reference, this is the document discussed: https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/images/d/d8/Features_needed_in_SVG2_for_Technical_Diagrams.pdf)
20:47:02 [heycam]
... talking with folks here, some of the line types they can be done with stroke-dasharray
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... some you can't, since they have some unique characteristics
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... coming up with an enhanced way to define line styles than implementing an enumerated set of line styles
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heycam: I agree with having a general mechanism
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Tav: variable stroke width would work for the curved and zig-zag lines
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heycam: yes if we allow the "both sides of the stroke go to one side of the stroke middle"
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ThomasSmailus: if the various line styles are not defined in a consistent way it makes it difficult to import/export
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ed: do you have any insight into which of these new things would be more important? a priority list?
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ThomasSmailus: I'm still working on that
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... I'm trying to get some concrete examples from within Boeing, and to get a feel of which of these are truly important
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... and which happen rarely
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... I suspect the patterns and line styles would be most important
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ed: as long as there's some information coming on that, that's fine
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krit: for most of these things it's important to have uniform scaling, horiz/vert axis scaling the same
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... how do we define if that's not the case?
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... or if you have skew?
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heycam: I think that's an open question for the non-scaling stroke that we already have
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ThomasSmailus: my gut feeling is that for hatch pattern they'd also be non-rotating
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... there's a legend those goes with them, and that pattern should match even after rotation
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krit: ok, so no transformation at all
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Tav: you can already do that with patterns can't you?
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krit: not really, they're in the coordinate space of the element
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heycam: you can't say userSpaceOnUse and choose the root coord system
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ed: not without ref() transforms or something like that
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Tav: so we'd add a third option? to use the root coordinate system?
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krit: should we go extreme and allow the user to select the user coordinate system?
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heycam: that's one thing I didn't like about ref(svg) from SVG Tiny 1.2, would rather allow selecting the target coord system
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ThomasSmailus: any opposition to any of these proposals?
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Tav: the only one I might question is the text, might be hard to do
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Tav: the other ones I think we should do
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krit: what's the problem with text?
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Tav: the text height
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... the boxed-cap, boxed-all ...
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krit: why is that difficult?
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ed: doesn't canvas already have that?
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heycam: don't think so?
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heycam: I don't think that feature should be too hard
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ThomasSmailus: do you feel these should be implemented in the browser?
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s/ThomasSmailus/krit/
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krit: there might be viewers which implement certain features, and browsers that implement a different set of features
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ThomasSmailus: our vision is that all viewers/browsers would implement the features
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... if some don't implement, it's not a feature we want to use/rely on
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krit: we need to specify what happens when you have a non-uniform scale
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... it's not an issue for you, since you're always doing a uniform scaling with your schematics
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ThomasSmailus: not hearing any opposition, so I'll proceed to gather more precise examples, and prioritise them
20:58:23 [shepazu]
q+
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... then based on that come up with some proposed behaviour
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Tav: would you have resources to add these to a browser?
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ThomasSmailus: no :)
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shepazu: I don't want there to be features in SVG that aren't in the browser
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... I think we're all on board with there being one SVG
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heycam: yes
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krit: yeah
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Topic: Canvas element: should fallback content be name spaced for HTML content?
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IOW, what happens with <canvas><p> ... </p></canvas>
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richardschwerdtfeger: in HTML we assume fallback content is HTML, of course, and what we're doing is using that to populate the accessibility APIs that corresponds to content that is drawn on canvas
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... what do we want to do for fallback content under SVG's <canvas>, and how do we support HTML in there?
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... namespaced in the fallback content?
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... I don't think it's quite addressed
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shepazu: I'd like to understand more about fallback canvas content
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richardschwerdtfeger: the fallback content is used to populate the accessibility tree, and there's a one-to-one matching between fallback content and the significant objects in the canvas
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... also, in HTML, the fallback content goes into the tab order
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https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/embedded.html#CanvasElement
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... so the question I have is, what do we want to do with SVG on this?
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... if we're using <canvas> to render something, we have to make it accessible, can we put HTML in the fallback content?
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... saw this when I was going through the "intrinsic host language semantics for SVG elements in ARIA"
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heycam: do we require <foreignObject> child of <canvas> to put HTML in there?
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krit: sounds like <canvas> is a bit like <div>, given you can tab right into it
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... we could make <canvas> a grouping element, so similar
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heycam: those children aren't going to be rendered though
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krit: which would allow <foreignObject> as well
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richardschwerdtfeger: so <canvas><foreignObject><p> ... ?
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krit: either that or SVG children directly
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heycam: I think that would be the most logical thing given how we allow HTML in SVG content currently
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heycam: so Dirk if you make it a "grouping element" in terms of the content model allowed in <canvas>, that makes sense
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shepazu: at one point we were discussing allowing an <html> element, rather than <foreignObject>
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... what's the fallback for canvas in HTML?
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... if we have canvas in SVG, we don't want to have one set of best practices for making accessible fallback in HTML and one in SVG
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... should be the same
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... if you have a <canvas> element in HTML, there's going to be a set of guides on how to make fallback content for that
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... and typically it would be HTML fallback content
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... I would expect they'll have a richer toolkit in HTML than in SVG
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krit: we wouldn't disallow it, but we could still do various fallback things in SVG -- tabindex, aria, etc.
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... but you could also choose to use HTML with <foreignObject>
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shepazu: there are going to be authoring tools that help you make accessible content for canvas
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... I seriously doubt those tools will also do SVG equivalents
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... so while I don't think SVG has the full range of characteristics -- you can't reproduce all of HTML in SVG just using aria
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krit: we just add one more step, you have to use <foreignObject>, then all the HTML content would be allowed in there
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shepazu: if we're importing these things one piece at a time, I think we should answer the question soon, what are we doing about HTML
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... and foreignObject is not a good solution
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... it's an ugly element, and it doesn't allow you to simply use HTML in there, you have to use namespaces, etc.
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... I think to address Rich's question, which is how we handle accessibility fallback in canvas in SVG, we should answer the question of how to handle HTML in SVG in general
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ed: I agree
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shepazu: so why not have <html> instead of <foreignObject>
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s/ed: I agree//
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krit: given you still need to add one more element, does it make it easier for the authoring tool?
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... I am sympathetic to the <html> element
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... but I think it makes no difference for this accessibility case
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krit: I feel this is independent of this issue
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... as <html> would just be another element we'd support everywhere
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shepazu: so we don't want to do anything special here
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krit: yes
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shepazu: I think addressing how we handle HTML in SVG means we don't have to go into a special solution for <canvas>
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... foreignObject is harder to use, that's my point
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... let's not keep avoiding the issue of HTML in SVG
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... then issues like this won't come up
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krit: so should we agree to allow the SVG content model within <canvas>? and in the future if we add <html> it would be allowed in there?
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shepazu: yes
21:18:05 [richardschwerdtfeger]
yes
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RESOLUTION: We will allow the standard container element content model within SVG <canvas>.
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Tav: what happens if you put a <rect> inside a <canvas>?
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heycam: it wouldn't be rendered
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cabanier: unless the canvas rendering is turned on
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shepazu: so there are somethings you can do in SVG you can't do in canvas. elements that are clickable. they're in the DOM.
21:22:30 [richardschwerdtfeger]
q+
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-Tav
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q?
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... a canvas element in SVG might have some interesting possibility for combining SVG/HTML stuff to make the canvas more accessible
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ack shepazu
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... I could imagine making a rect/circle for hit testing
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... and they're rendering that thing in canvas, but the hit testing is done in the fallback content
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+Tav
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... I think we should think more about that
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cabanier: I think that is already supported
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ack richardschwerdtfeger
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richardschwerdtfeger: there are hit regions in canvas, what happens if you're trying to use both that and the fallback content providing the hit regions
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... in HTML they're DOM elements, but if they have a location, then there are spatial things to be concerned about as well
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shepazu: I think there are interesting possibilities here
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ACTION: Cameron to change the content model of <canvas> in SVG to allow the same child elements as <g>.
21:25:34 [trackbot]
Created ACTION-3598 - Change the content model of <canvas> in svg to allow the same child elements as <g>. [on Cameron McCormack - due 2014-03-06].
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Topic: CSS Masking review request
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krit: CSS Masking is back in WD again
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... it has already been for 2 weeks, and would like to ask for a new LCWD soon
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... but would like as much review before that as possible
21:26:34 [krit]
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-masking-1/
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... if anyone who has time, please look over the current WD
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ed: is there a date for comments?
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krit: a lot of things changed
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... next week, but willing to delay if there are requests for longer view period
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s/next week/end of next week/
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-Thomas_Smailus
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-heycam
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-cabanier
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-stakagi
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-birtles
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-Tav
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-nikos
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-Doug_Schepers
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-krit
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-ed
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-Rich_Schwerdtfeger
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GA_SVGWG(SVG1)3:30PM has ended
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Attendees were Thomas_Smailus, krit, [IPcaller], ed, stakagi, birtles, heycam, Tav, nikos, Doug_Schepers, Rich_Schwerdtfeger, cabanier
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trackbot, end telcon
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Zakim, list attendees
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sorry, trackbot, I don't know what conference this is
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RRSAgent, please draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/02/27-svg-minutes.html trackbot
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RRSAgent, bye
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I see 3 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2014/02/27-svg-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: Cameron to set up Leipzig meeting questionairre [1]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/02/27-svg-irc#T20-38-55
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ACTION: Erik to define SVGMatrix.rotateFromVector(0,0) in SVG 2 not to throw [2]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/02/27-svg-irc#T20-43-48
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ACTION: Cameron to change the content model of <canvas> in SVG to allow the same child elements as <g>. [3]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/02/27-svg-irc#T21-25-34