Description
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In the CSS transforms module, the section "User Coordinate space" has the
following statement:
In particular the patternUnits
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/pservers.html#PatternElementPatternUnitsAttribute
, gradientUnits
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/pservers.html#LinearGradientElementGradientUnitsAttribute
and maskUnits
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/masking.html#MaskElementMaskUnitsAttribute attributes
don’t affect the user coordinate system used for transformations [SVG11]
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-transforms-1/#biblio-svg11.
Links:
- last published working draft
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-transforms-1-20131126/#svg-user-coordinate-space - current editor's draft
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-transforms-1/#svg-user-coordinate-space
Although the draft spec references SVG 1.1, this would be a breaking
change from current SVG behavior. The SVG definition used for
gradientTransform and patternTransform is as follows:
This additional transformation matrix is post-multiplied to (i.e.,
inserted to the right of) any previously defined transformations, including
the implicit transformation necessary to convert from object bounding box
units http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#ObjectBoundingBox to user
space.
Links:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/pservers.html#LinearGradientElementGradientTransformAttribute
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/pservers.html#PatternElementPatternTransformAttribute
Unless there is an overwhelming reason to change this, I would recommend
that the CSS transforms text be updated to state the transformation applies
in the user coordinate system in effect for the element's contents,*
including* any implicit transformations created by patternUnits,
gradientUnits, or maskUnits.