I think we should support rgba/hsla colors in SVG. dave
On Jun 1, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Dirk Schulze wrote: > The SVG 1.1 specification has a reference to CSS2. So from the > specifications point of view, rgba() shouldn't be supported. > Nevertheless SVG 1.1se won't have a strict reference to CSS2. Also other > browsers support rgba on SVG already. > I'm fine with a rgba implementation and Eric wrote already what is > needed to support it on the bug report. > > Dirk > >> 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? >> >> >> -Jon >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
