You should raise this question on the public-fx mailing list: <http://www.w3.org/2010/fx/effects-task-force.html>
Simon On Jun 1, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Jonathan Kliegman wrote: > I was looking at Bug 16183 (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16183) - > SVG doesn't support rgba() colors. I was planning on fixing this but after > reading the SVG spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/ which states that SVG > supports CSS2 color specifications I'm unsure if this should be fixed or not. > rgba() was introduced with CSS3 so is technically not supported by SVG. > > Looking at other implementations Chrome and webkit-head both render a rgba() > color as pure black. Safari 4.0.5 I've seen render it as either black or > missing. Firefox does render it properly. Batiq fails to render and gives > an error: "The attribute "stroke" represents an invalid CSS value ("rgba(0, > 255, 0, 0.5)")." > > Looking at this bug from an end user perspective it would be good to add this > feature in as its likely that people will build sites that aren't strictly > compliant and would want things to just work. However I'm always wary of > making changes that go against a published standard as that path can lead to > ugliness, divergent standards and future headaches. > > What I'm looking for from the community is feedback on what the right thing > to do here with respect to webkit is. Is it worth the convenience to the > user to add support for rgba() to the SVG code?
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