[css3-images] paint sources from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-02-06 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012) (original) (raw)

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:31 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#element-reference (Overview.html revision 1.269) says the following:

Host languages may define that some elements provide a paint

source. Paint sources have an intrinsic width, height, and

appearance, separate from the process of rendering, and so may

be used as images even when they're not being rendered. Examples

of elements that provide paint sources are the ,

, and elements in SVG, or the ,

Given that the SVG and HTML specifications don't currently define that these elements provide a paint source, I think this specification should define that they provide a paint source, and define how they do. It can still allow other languages to add defintions, and future levels of HTML and SVG to revise theirs.

HTML defines that ,

SVG uses the term "paint source" already, though I probably should go ahead and define how the coordinate systems map - I plan to match what roc already did.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 6 February 2012 09:15:27 UTC