Bug 15477 - <textPath> is missing 'spacing' & 'method' support
Summary: <textPath> is missing 'spacing' & 'method' support
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: SVG (show other bugs)
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P3 Normal
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Reported: 2007-10-12 08:17 PDT by Nikolas Zimmermann
Modified: 2022-07-15 14:45 PDT (History)
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Description Nikolas Zimmermann 2007-10-12 08:17:17 PDT
As the title says, two textPath attributes are not handled.
I'm not sure about the importance of these:

- spacing seems a bit ridicolous to me.

<quote>
A value of exact indicates that the glyphs should be rendered exactly according to the spacing rules as specified in Text on a path layout rules.

A value of auto indicates that the user agent should use text-on-a-path layout algorithms to adjust the spacing between glyphs in order to achieve visually appealing results.
</quote>

Please define visually appealing results. IMHO our current way to always use "exact" makes more sense. I don't see the need for this setting, and I wouldn't know how to implement it better in "auto" mode.

- 'method' seems interessting to support

Batik ignores this at the moment, AFAIK only Opera implements this.
Any comments on the need of these? Otherwhise I'd just postpone this.
Comment 1 Brent Fulgham 2022-07-15 14:45:07 PDT
These seem to have been added in 2019.