Re: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Working Group: Possible New Path Type

My humble opinion is that, with the current official standard still not 100% supported in a lot of software (I'm not speaking only of Inkscape), adding more fancy features would be premature.

I also think that SVG, as the graphic core, should only support things that are very difficult or impossible to do in upper layers, like filters or color management. Things like spiros or polygons (another thing they wanted to add that I was against) are best done via extensions, the way Inkscape does them. This way SVG renderers (as opposed to editors) are freed from the burden of implementing these algorithms.