To close the loop on this, back in December 2008 I did write a Webkit Bugzilla report and just today I got the word that they fixed the bug, 25 months later! https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14242 I haven't downloaded the lastest nightly build yet, so haven't confirmed it. Ken Nellis
--- In [email protected], Kenneth Nellis <nellisks@...> wrote: > > Thanx to Andreas and Frank for their helpful responses and apologies > for my second post appealing for help on the same subject. > > Frank, I followed up on your idea that applying font-size directly as > <text> element attributes rather than in style attributes. This > worked to a point: I could control the text size in Safari down to > 0.3pt (if I recall correctly), but this was still too big, but if I > made the size any smaller, Safari would ignore my specification and > generate the huge text. > > Andreas, your JavaScript solution is creativeand works in all > browsers I tested, even Mac/IE 5.2.3but I think it points out that > the real solution is for the program that generates these SVG files > to specify the coordinates on a higher-resolution grid so that I can > specify font-size in a higher unit count. Do you think this is worthy > of a Webkit Bugzilla report? > > Ken > ------------------------------------ ----- 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/
