So it appears the answer is NO, because the groups didn't really have a strong feel about it in the early stages of developing the standards. Am I reading that right?
Its even more confusing in light of the fact that in English, property and attribute are somewhat synonymous terms: "In computing, an attribute is a specification that defines a property of an object, element, or file."[Wikipedia - Attribute(computing)] It seems I don't subscribe to www-svg or www-css (or whatever the lists are), so I'll respond here. I have seen some discussion about how SVG's animations are problematic because not all of SVG's features are expressed as CSS properties. For example, 'x', 'y', 'width', 'height' and 'transform'. Why not just change the SVG spec (1.1.1?) to make them into (non-inheritable) properties? Implementations of SVG that supports SMIL have to unify attributes and properties anyway in order to hook into the animation engine. In the early days of the SVG WG when we decided which things would be properties and which would be attributes, most of us didn't really have strong convictions behind those distinctions. Jon Thomas -- Thomas Smailus, Ph.D., P.E. Boeing Research & Technology Tel: 425/373-2850 Mobile: 347/SMAILUS From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob Beard Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 09:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [svg-developers] height and width in svg element Hi David, See Jon Ferallio's comments about attributes vs. CSS properties in SVG here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/61991 Jake On 10-08-11 09:28 AM, David Bellot wrote: > > Hi again, > > today I've got plenty of questions for you, SVG fellows... > > I wrote this simple file but I don't get what I expected. I want my svg > element to get its dimensions from the CSS. But it doesn't get it. > Therefore the rectangle I put takes 100% of the screen. > If I put the dimensions directly into the svg element, then it works. > > <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> > <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" " > http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd";> > > <svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:xlink=" > http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";> > > * <style type="text/css"> > <![CDATA[ > svg.mybox { > height: 5cm; > width: 3cm; > } > ]]> > </style>* > > <defs> > <rect id="yellowbox" height="100%" width="100%" fill="yellow"/> > </defs> > > * <svg class="mybox"> > <use xlink:href="#yellowbox"/> > </svg>* > </svg> > > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. > David > > -- > David Bellot, PhD > [email protected]<mailto:david.bellot%40gmail.com> > <mailto:david.bellot%40gmail.com> > http://david.bellot.free.fr > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- 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: [email protected] [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/
