On 05-12-11 10:05, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
... The second is how Inkscape should handle items that are not yet in a published specification. This is not just a mesh gradient issue. There are a bunch of interesting things coming up in SVG 2 that would be nice for Inkscape to implement. One key one is solid colors (or named colors, borrowed from the SVG 1.2 Tiny spec). This will eliminate the need to to use one-stop gradients for custom palettes (and hopefully simplify our code). We will probably need to keep new things temporarily in the Inkscape name space and then choose an SVG "level" when saving the file: SVG1.1, SVG2_experimental, SVG2. We don't want to be burned again by the flowed text issue from the dead SVG 1.2 Full spec.
To add to this, in particular I think we want to avoid doing it one way, then seeing it done another way in SVG 2 and ending up in a kind of limbo.