Hi Doug,
I suspect you already know that I’ll not be happy until much more is accomplished and am rather dismayed that it has taken more than a decade to get even rudimentary text areas into SVG in a way that will work across browsers. Coupling the fate of SVG with developments in CSS seems like putting the cart before the horse and seems to be slowing down progress in SVG. I suspect my sentiments on such matters are already well known, but I would be remiss in my obligation to other authors who share this perspective if I did not say it again. Cheers David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Schepers Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 2:58 AM To: svg-dev Subject: [svg-developers] Wrapping Text in SVG 2 Hi, folks- Some of you may remember me, though I haven't been very active in this list for a while. I work for W3C, I'm on the SVG Working Group, and I've been developing SVG apps and docs since about 2000 (though I'm a little rusty with development :D). I'm writing today to mention a proposal for the SVG 2 spec, and to solicit feedback. Over the years, I've spoken to many people who use SVG, and one of the pain points they remark on is wrapping text (aka multi-line text or flowing text). For a while now, we've planned to allow text wrapping into arbitrary shapes, most recently as part of the CSS regions, exclusions, and shapes specs. But those might take a while. In the short term, I think there's room for simple text wrapping based on CSS's box model. Effectively, by providing a width to a <text> element in SVG, it would wrap the text to that width. I think this is a pretty simple proposal, and it could be implemented fairly quickly after being specced out in SVG 2. You can read more about my rough proposal here: * http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Proposals/Wrapping_Text * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2013Jun/0007.html * http://schepers.cc/its-a-wrap * http://schepers.cc/svg/text/text-wrap-width.svg * http://schepers.cc/svg/text/text-wrap-width-tspan.svg As regular users of SVG, I'd like to know if there are any considerations we should take into account, if you feel this would meet your needs for use in SVG, or if you have any concerns. Regards- -Doug [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/
