[webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove ENABLE(SVG)

[Sam Weinig]

On Jan 28, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Philip Rogers <pdr at google.com> wrote:

> This will make hacking on WebKit much easier. For better or worse, SVG is tightly coupled with the rest of rendering/. We recently measured SVG usage on the web and found 10% of all pageviews contain SVG.

Interesting stat! Thanks.

> 
> Do you plan to remove ENABLE(SVG_FONTS) as well?

Not at this point.

-Sam

> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Andreas Kling <akling at apple.com> wrote:
> This sounds good to me.
> 
> A WebKit without SVG support is scarcely a WebKit at all.
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Sam Weinig <weinig at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > While we are discussing removing #ifdefs that everyone has enabled, I’d like to propose removing ENABLE(SVG), as every port has SVG enabled.  The only argument I have heard for keeping it around is to keep a “minimal build” working, but I don’t think the clutter of the #ifdefs is worth that.
> >
> > -Sam
> >
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