[webkit-dev] Webkit handling of SVG with rgba() color

[Dirk Schulze]

The SVG 1.1 specification has a reference to CSS2. So from the
specifications point of view, rgba() shouldn't be supported.
Nevertheless SVG 1.1se won't have a strict reference to CSS2. Also other
browsers support rgba on SVG already.
I'm fine with a rgba implementation and Eric wrote already what is
needed to support it on the bug report.

Dirk

> I was looking at Bug 16183
> (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16183) - SVG doesn't support
> rgba() colors.  I was planning on fixing this but after reading the
> SVG spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/ which states that SVG supports
> CSS2 color specifications I'm unsure if this should be fixed or not.
> rgba() was introduced with CSS3 so is technically not supported by
> SVG.  
> 
> 
> Looking at other implementations Chrome and webkit-head both render a
> rgba() color as pure black.  Safari 4.0.5 I've seen render it as
> either black or missing.  Firefox does render it properly.  Batiq
> fails to render and gives an error: "The attribute "stroke" represents
> an invalid CSS value ("rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.5)")."  
> 
> 
> Looking at this bug from an end user perspective it would be good to
> add this feature in as its likely that people will build sites that
> aren't strictly compliant and would want things to just work.  However
> I'm always wary of making changes that go against a published standard
> as that path can lead to ugliness, divergent standards and future
> headaches.  
> 
> 
> What I'm looking for from the community is feedback on what the right
> thing to do here with respect to webkit is.  Is it worth the
> convenience to the user to add support for rgba() to the SVG code? 
> 
> 
> -Jon
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