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Bug 11705 - Why does the definition of "middle" differ from the one in SVG 1.1 10.9.2?
Summary: Why does the definition of "middle" differ from the one in SVG 1.1 10.9.2?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-01-09 14:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-01-09 14:24:13 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#dom-context-2d-textbaseline-middle

Comment:
Why does the definition of "middle" differ from the one in SVG 1.1 10.9.2?

Posted from: 212.61.239.181
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-08 01:35:12 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Because the SVG definition, and more importantly the CSS definition on which the SVG one is based, is esoteric and isn't what people think of when they think of 'middle'.

What do browsers implement? If browsers use the same definition for 'middle' here as for CSS and SVG, we can change it. (It looks like Opera does 'middle' per CSS/SVG, and Gecko/WebKit do it per the HTML spec. Haven't figured out how to test IE9 yet.)
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-08 01:45:58 UTC 
boogyman helped out. IE9 also does it per spec. So I think it's probably too late to change.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:03:54 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1