On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:07 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
Both filters and gradients allow this sort of chaining (to arbitrary depth). Its supposed to promote re-use, with one filter or gradient being slightly modified (subclassed, kinda) for multiple objects.
Yeah -- we take advantage of that heavily for gradients; I had missed it for filters in my reading of the spec. Good to see that something along those lines is in fact there.
In practice objectBoundingBox get you most of what's needed there and in 1.2 the filter region extensions also help with really reusable as opposed to subclassable filters: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilter12-20070501/#filter-margins
SVG 1.2 filters module in fact deprecates using xlink href (on the grounds of increased implementor complexity for little practical gain); if you have views either for or against such deprecation it would be useful to hear them. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilter12-20070501/#FilterElementHrefAttribut...
Niko, Nicholas, do you have any thoughts on this?
-mental