[whatwg] Including HTML more directly into SVG

[Elliott Sprehn]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>...
>>
>> Another solution could be SVG inventing their own elements for these
>> kinds of things.  For example, #1 could be solved with an <svg:span>
>> or <svg:p> element.  Having duplicate elements in multiple namespaces
>> is regarded as an antipattern, ...
>
> SVG has a totally different font and styling model, different kinds of
> animations, filters, etc. The paragraph and span concept in SVG
> wouldn't be the same thing so it's not an antipattern. You would have
> to specify some kind of x/y coordinate and the width since SVG doesn't
> have a flow concept so there would be nothing to size or place
> against.
>

See also http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/flow.html