Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Download button SVG

[Sam Geeraerts]

Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef:
> El mié, 26-08-2009 a las 20:01 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió:
> > Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef:
> > > El mar, 25-08-2009 a las 22:47 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió:
> > > > I'll figure out some other time why linking from the button (object 
> > > > element) doesn't work.
> > > I tryed in different ways to do that too but the only thing that works
> > > is creating the link in the svg[1] file itself. See this example:
> > >
> > > http://introsmedia.tuxfamily.org/svg_test/svg_link.html
> > >
> > > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/linking.html
> > It looks like you're right.
> >
> > Thank you W3C, for this shipment of fail. :(
>
> I don't know. Now I think that trying to link an SVG object is like
> trying to link an embeded HTML object. Since both documents can have
> links inside, maybe it is not necesary to create the link from the
> parent document.

I can see why being able to wrap a generic object in a link is maybe not 
a great idea (e.g. it doesn't make sense for Java applets). But it's 
such a shame that SVG images can't be treated like normal images. Only 
being able to link from within SVG partially breaks hotlinking and being 
able to reuse the same image for different URLs.

I can't imagine that W3C haven't considered this, so maybe it's by 
design. Anyway, now I know that I either have to use the PNG image or 
use my own copy of the SVG image.