Like many of you I would like to advance the use of SVG only web design. Unless I am missing something, one problem that exists is the automatic Y-axis scaling of designs with text. Specifically what I am referring to is the fact that the flow text box "dead ends" once it is full unlike an html div that can continue to autosize in the Y-Axis(or X).
In addition even if the flow text box did resize other elements in the design would not. If for instance we had a blue square for a background and some text in the center then the blue box would also need to resize to prevent the text from flowing past the bottom of it.
My programming skills are not up to standard with the rest of you but if you would like, I could hack together a proof of concept in Python, if it was of value someone could re-do it in C and you folks could figure out a where and how to use it in the GUI.
By counting line numbers and the pixel height of the letters, I should be able to calculate the size the flow text box should be and then I could use those attributes to resize other attributes.
Am I missing something? Is this a dumb idea? -Patrick