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Regards- Doug Schepers, on behalf of the SVG Working Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. Doug Schepers wrote: | | Hi- | | The SVG WG is interested in soliciting opinions, particularly from | implementors, about the 'traits' feature of the SVG uDOM. | | You can find a detailed description of the traits interface | throughout the | current draft of the uDOM [1], and in specific in section | A.7.12 TraitAccess | [2]. | | The SVG WG feels that this interface addresses many | author-requested needs, | including the ability to access and set the animated or | computed value of an | attribute, and to access individual components of | microsyntaces such as the | numbers in rgb(0,0,0) and the path segments in a 'path' element's 'd' | attribute [3]. It also provides strong typing, which is useful even in | weakly-typed languages like EcmaScript since it can | distinguish between | booleans, strings, and numbers (a useful feature for those | who script SVG, | since DOM methods only return strings), and provides clear exception | messages for erroneous trait values, allowing for ease in | debugging. The SVG | WG does not feel that it is a redundant feature to DOM 3, but | is rather | complementary. | | Any criticism (or praise) of the 'traits' feature is very | welcome. We are | especially interested in whether you see value in providing | this mechanism | beyond the scope of Java, such as in EcmaScript, C#, or other | languages. If | there are particular features that you feel are inappropriate or that | conflict with other specifications (such as DOM 3), and which | would prevent | your adoption of 'traits', we encourage descriptions of those | issues along | with proposed resolutions. | | [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/svgudom.html | [2] | http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/svgudom.html | #svg::TraitAcc | ess | [3] | http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/svgudom.html | #Attribute_Nor | malization | | Regards- | Doug Schepers, | on behalf of the SVG Working Group | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
