On 19-04-11 15:00, Aslak Karsi wrote:
... Yes the screenshots are just mockups. We feel that we don't have enough programming experience to actually implement these changes. We thought about the technical difficulties while developing this idea. We're not claiming to be SVG experts, but understood by reading http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/ that it could be possible to include multiple filters in a single svg file (see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundImage example). This should allow separating the filters by filter ids. After all... separating filter can be thought as applying them one after another, right? ...
Well, yes and no. SVG has filters and filter primitives. (It is not uncommon to hear the term filter being used for both, but technically there is a big difference.) A filter is what is applied to an object and it consists of a number of filter primitives. As you can only apply one filter to each object, and filters cannot be used as filter primitives, there is no standard way to apply multiple filters to a single object (very, very unfortunately). That is why I wondered whether you had any solution for that (as it looks like this is possible in your mockup). But I guess eventually we'll either figure out some way to "fake" it, or wait until SVG does support it.