On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 2014-06-04 20:28 GMT-04:00 Cameron McCormack <c...@mcc.id.au>:
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> On 05/06/14 07:20, Milan Sreckovic wrote:
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>>> In general, is “this is how it worked with SVGMatrix” one of the
>>> design principles?
>>>
>>> I was hoping this would be the time matrix rotate() method goes to
>>> radians, like the canvas rotate, and unlike SVGMatrix version that
>>> takes degrees...
>>>
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>> By the way, in the SVG Working Group we have been discussing (but haven't
>> decided yet) whether to perform a wholesale overhaul of the SVG DOM.
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>> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/improving-svg-dom/
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>> If we go through with that, then we could drop SVGMatrix and use
>> DOMMatrix (which wouldn't then need to be compatible with SVGMatrix) for
>> all the SVG DOM methods we wanted to retain that deal with matrices. I'm
>> hoping we'll resolve whether to go ahead with this at our next meeting, in
>> August.
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> Thanks, that's very interesting input in this thread, as the entire
> conversation here has been based on the axiom that we have to keep
> compatibility with SVGMatrix...
>

As Dirk says, we can't throw SVGMatrix away.
The rewrite of SVG is just a proposal from Cameron at the moment. Nobody
has signed off on its implementation and we don't know if other browsers
will buy into implementing a new interface while maintaining the old one.
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