Re: SVG Font glyphs containing arbitrary SVG content

On 11/09/09 1:00 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
> I believe that some implementations ignore child elements if there is a d attribute. (This ambiguity is the subject of a current errata item).

I thought it was pretty clear myself. However, that's not the problem 
here because if you removed the "d" from that testcase you get the same 
result: Opera and Webkit don't render the rect.

> ROC>  I also notice that the SVG 1.1 test suite doesn't test anything but
> ROC>  <glyph d="..."/>.
>
> Actually, we noticed that too, fairly recently. The next release will fix that.

I was actually wondering whether it would make sense to remove that 
feature for the Web, since it seems really hard to implement in general 
and as far as I can tell no Web browser implements it.

Rob