Re: Rename 'd' property

"Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:27:57 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.svg
Message-ID <6898243.snIhJ3HVPm@ap03>
Hello,

the core disadvantage for renaming something in SVG is, that it is backwards 
incompatible to already published viewers and existing content.
For SVG 2 there is a requirement to avoid any backwards incompatibilities.

And as we all know - there is a certain danger, if implementor get a choice to
do something, this typically results in trouble for authors and the audience 
;-)

'd' is a nice name both for an attribute and a property.
However, it is questionable to define it as a property, just because in almost
any case the information in it is content and not just decoration.

Olaf