In the CSS transforms module, the section "User Coordinate space" has the following statement:
In particular the patternUnits > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/pservers.html#PatternElementPatternUnitsAttribute> > , gradientUnits > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/pservers.html#LinearGradientElementGradientUnitsAttribute> > and maskUnits > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/masking.html#MaskElementMaskUnitsAttribute> > attributes > don’t affect the user coordinate system used for transformations [SVG11] > <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-transforms-1/#biblio-svg11>. Links: - last published working draft http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-transforms-1-20131126/#svg-user-coordinate-space - current editor's draft http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-transforms-1/#svg-user-coordinate-space Although the draft spec references SVG 1.1, this would be a *breaking change* from current SVG behavior. The SVG definition used for gradientTransform and patternTransform is as follows: This additional transformation matrix is post-multiplied to (i.e., > inserted to the right of) any previously defined transformations, including > the implicit transformation necessary to convert from object bounding box > units <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#ObjectBoundingBox> to user > space. Links: - http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/pservers.html#LinearGradientElementGradientTransformAttribute - http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/pservers.html#PatternElementPatternTransformAttribute Unless there is an overwhelming reason to change this, I would recommend that the CSS transforms text be updated to state the transformation applies in the user coordinate system in effect for the element's contents,* including* any implicit transformations created by patternUnits, gradientUnits, or maskUnits. AmeliaBR
