On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 01:24, Bryce Harrington wrote:
<title> and inkscape:label sound redundant to me.
Well... check out section 5.4 of the SVG 1.1 recommendation and see what you think. To sum up by example, though:
Is "Daisy's hat, decorated with spring flowers," a usable layer name? Would most authors mind having the layer dialog or layer selector be wide enough to show that?
Alternately, is "Hat [lineart] A" a useful textual/audio rendering for users employing assistive technology?
Many designers tend to name their layers more like the latter, while the SVG spec suggests <title>'s use as an accessibility feature for content consumers which may be rendered via tooltips, alternate stylesheets, speech synthesis, etc.
A secondary issue is that <title> (and <desc>) are supposed to support arbitrary markup (e.g. XHTML), which is probably a bit beyond what we want to have to deal with in layer names. I didn't realize that at first when I had you do the initial UI for them (at that time I thought they were attributes, too).
-mental