On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM Alexis Rossi <alexisrossir...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM Alexis Rossi <alexisrossir...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Regarding "SVGs must render in a single static configuration without
>>> dynamic elements or responsive design features", this wording was changed
>>> per the suggestion by ekr in this email [1] if it's helpful for remembering
>>> what the intentions were.
>>>
>>> The original version of that bullet point was "SVGs must remain static
>>> after publication of the RFC, so there may be interactive, multimedia, or
>>> other elements that cannot be included in SVG diagrams."
>>>
>>> My intent was to exclude things like:
>>> * interactive features like things changing color on mouseover or upon
>>> clicking an element within the SVG
>>> * animations
>>> * audio
>>> * video
>>>
>>> I did not intend to imply that an SVG couldn't resize based on the
>>> sizing of the viewing screen/paper (I'd prefer to leave the parameters of
>>> that up to the RPC because they have more experience than I do with the
>>> constraints of our publishing system).
>>>
>>
>> Neither did I, but it's also not what I mean by "responsive design".
>>
>>
>>> Also for further reference, RFC 7996 section 2 [2] specifically
>>> disallowed the following for the purpose of creating "simple diagrams
>>> that do not change once the RFC is published" :
>>>
>>>    12  Multimedia
>>>    13  Interactivity
>>>    15  Scripting
>>>    16  Animation
>>>    18  Metadata
>>>    19  Extensibility
>>>
>>>
>>> If it seems like we're on the same page about what we're trying to
>>> accomplish, how about this wording:
>>>
>>
>> So I'm not sure we are.
>>
>> Consider a simple example where you have a diagram where you have two
>> elements which can either appear next to each other or vertically stacked
>> depending
>> on the size of the viewport. Or another where an element appears or
>> disappears
>> depending on the size of the viewport. Is it your intent to disallow or
>> allow these?
>> My sense from the previous discussion was that people wanted to disallow
>> these--I
>> personally do not feel strongly--and my text was intended to convey that,
>> but it's
>> not clear to me that your text does that.
>>
>> -Ekr
>>
>>
> Okay, I see. My priority is that the semantic content doesn't change -
> e.g. if a layout went from vertical to horizontal without changing the
> meaning of the diagram, I think that's fine.
>

OK. So this seems like a much more expansive view than others have had, so
perhaps we need to iterate more on objectives.
As noted above, I don't have a strong opinion; I'm just trying to ensure
the text is clear.

-Ekr


The RPC may have concerns about how this could affect publication
> formations, though - perhaps we can hear from Jean on this?
>
> Alexis
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> OLD
>>
>>> "SVGs must render in a single static configuration without dynamic
>>> elements or responsive design features."
>>>
>>> NEW
>>> "The content of the SVGs must be static. For example, SVGs cannot
>>> contain interactive elements, animation, or multimedia elements."
>>>
>>> Alexis
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/rswg/T8CrBXBnPFmLOMCnWfvuw3COFm0/
>>> [2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7996.html#section-2
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 5, 2025, at 22:22, Brian E Carpenter <
>>>> brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > without […] responsive design features
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn’t we then also remove the responsive features of the HTML that
>>>> is carrying that SVG?
>>>>
>>>> I think we need to spend a little more time in figuring out what
>>>> exactly we are trying to disallow here, and I wouldn’t mind if we also
>>>> could articulate why.
>>>>
>>>> Grüße, Carsten
>>>>
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