[whatwg] SVG extensions to <canvas>
Oliver Hunt
oliver at apple.com
Wed May 6 13:16:50 PDT 2009
>> SVG images often don't have an intrinsic size. What's the intrinsic
>> size of
>> this image?
>> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
>> <linearGradient id="g" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="0">
>> <stop stop-color="red" offset="0"/><stop stop-color="lime"
>> offset="1"/>
>> </linearGradient>
>> <rect x="0%" y="0%" width="100%" height="100%" fill="url(#g)"/>
>> </svg>
>
> That <svg> hasn't got intrinsic sizes, so it cannot be rendered on a
> canvas. This doesn't preclude the use of <svg> with intrinsic sizes,
> that are given only by width/height attributes on <svg>.
That's really really bad, as that means sometimes drawing you svg will
work, and sometimes it won't. That's why it's a bad API.
--Oliver
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