So apparently there are no solution to what I want to do. It means I will have to "manually" copy the widths and heights into each svg element in my file. For the context, each svg element contains the representation of a card, and all those svg elements make a deck of cards. Why an svg elements and not a group <g> ? Because I can then define position of everything inside with percentage.
In my case, let's try to turn the problem upside-down: if I have a <svg> element, can I force it's size to be the one of an object it contains ? For example I put a rectangle inside a <svg> as my first element, can the dimensions of <svg> forced to be the dimensions of this <rect> Cheers, David (for a work in progress, see http://svg-cards.sf.net. The website is not done yet). On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 19:49, Smailus, Thomas O < [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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] > <svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com>[mailto: > [email protected] <svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of Jacob Beard > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 09:22 > To: [email protected] <svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> > 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] <david.bellot%40gmail.com><mailto: > david.bellot%40gmail.com <david.bellot%2540gmail.com>> <mailto: > david.bellot%40gmail.com <david.bellot%2540gmail.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] > > > -- David Bellot, PhD [email protected] http://david.bellot.free.fr [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/
