Hi- For those of you who don't know, I'm not a big fan of CSS. In general, I don't care much for the set of problems they chose to solve or not solve, and I'm not convinced that the manner in which the solutions were approached was a good choice in retrospect. To be fair, it may be that the implementations of CSS are to blame, not the CSS specifications themselves.
Specifically, though, I don't think CSS is that useful outside of HTML... in particular, I don't think it's well-suited for use in SVG. Thus, my following questions and comments. Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > On 11/2/06, brucerindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 1. No CSS attrubutes in SVG. While XML attributes are possible, it >> is just easier in some cases to use style attributes in SVG. The lack >> of support in Mars will make this very difficult. Bruce, what specific aspects of CSS do you normally use that would make its absence "very difficult"? I'm assuming you use classes, rather than selectors? What use cases in SVG do you have that are solved by CSS, and is CSS as it stands adequate for those use cases or could it (or some other mechanism) be changed to suit them better? > We are simply following the SVG committee itself in the movement > away from CSS to attributes - because attributes are more in line with > XML philosophy and can be MUCH more easily validated & schema'd. Just to set the record straight, that isn't really accurate. SVG Tiny 1.2 doesn't use CSS (nor did SVG Tiny 1.1), but mainly as a footprint issue for smaller devices, not out of a philosophical or technical disagreement with CSS. SVG Full will still use CSS, and we are planning to work more closely with the CSS WG to make sure that authors have the best options available. Admittedly, opinions about the utility of CSS in SVG do differ in the SVG Working Group; I am clearly not a proponent of CSS, but there are other active members of the SVG WG take the opposing view. All of us agree that for the CDF (Compound Document Format, or XHTML+SVG+CSS+JS+??) use case, CSS is very important, and how exactly it works with SVG should be clearly defined. Regards- -Doug ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
