- From: Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@enst.fr>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:28:46 +0100
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: SVG Working Group <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Hi Doug, Doug Schepers a écrit : > Hi, Cyril- > > Cyril Concolato wrote (on 10/31/08 7:13 AM): >> Cameron McCormack a écrit : >>>>>> References to any other kinds of document, such as media or external >>>>>> scripts, are not classified as primary or resource documents. Multiple >>>>>> references to media at a particular IRI always result in separate >>>>>> timelines being created. >>>>> This last part is also fine but you have a sentence explaining >>>>> the behavior for media. You should explicitely say what happens for >>>>> script. It may use a reference to HTML if you think it's better. >>>> I don't think this section is appropriate for such definitions. We >>>> have a scripting chapter, which we could link to. Does section 15.2.1 >>>> "Script Processing" not describe the processing well enough? I think >>>> it's rather clear from that section that if you have two separate >>>> script elements they will execute once each, even if the referenced >>>> script is the same IRI (and I can't help but wonder if this is really >>>> such a large issue, since IMHO it doesn't provide an author much value >>>> in running the same script snippet twice anyway). I'd guess that if >>>> you find this type of content then it's most likely an authoring >>>> mistake. >>> I agree with Erik that I don’t think it’s necessary to say anything more >>> about scripting here beyond what already is. >> I understand and my initial comment is satisfied. Thank you. > > Thanks for your reply. I've marked the issue as closed, and noted your > satisfaction. > > Just to give you a little more context, at the TPAC, we discussed this > issue in more detail, especially in light of Cameron's experiments with > script execution. > > While superficially similar to resource documents, such as SVG files or > media files, script files are not the same kind of resource. The > similarity ends with the fact that they are referenced resources. > > The main distinction is that the resource documents described in this > section are intended as presentation formats, not executing code. > Historically, browsers have treated these differently... it could have > happened that there would have been a single cohesive model, but it > didn't turn out that way. > > The line is blurry when the external document is something like a CSS > file or SMIL Timesheets file... it may be a good idea to look further at > those in SVG 2.0 Core, and reorganize the spec to talk about all > externally reference resources. Thanks for bringing up the topic. Thanks for this clarification, knowing the context indeed helps understanding the decision. Cyril -- Cyril Concolato Maître de Conférences/Associate Professor Groupe Mutimedia/Multimedia Group Département Traitement du Signal et Images /Dept. Signal and Image Processing Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications 46 rue Barrault 75 013 Paris, France http://tsi.enst.fr/~concolat
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