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1. place cursor in path of any animated link 2. whether declarative or client-side script cursor should change (to hand) and status bar update destination as animated element passes under cursor. cheers doug, couldn't resist trying this out... <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 100 150" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <a xlink:href="http://www.peepo.co.uk"> <circle cx="25" cy="30" r="10" fill="blue" > <animate attributeName="cx" begin="0s" dur="16s" from="25" to="150" repeatCount="indefinite" /> </circle> </a> </svg>
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Hi, Jonathan- The public issue tracker is for reporting problems or requesting features for SVG specifications, not for questions related to the specs or particular implementations. For questions, please use the SVG mailing list (www-svg@svg.org) or the svg-developers mailing list. I note also that you have already asked this question on the public SVG list, but it's not at all clear what you are asking for. Thanks- -Doug
Ignoring the issue of animation, which is orthogonal to the main issue, you do have a point here. I couldn't find anywhere in the Linking chapter where it states that focusing on or mousing over an anchor should give an indicator that it is a link, nor what the link location is. I could not find any such statement in HTML or XLink, either. I think this should be stated as a SHOULD for both SVG 1.1 and SVG 1.2, and I'll raise it with the SVG WG.
doug sounds better than I imagined... however, animation is also an issue, whether orthogonal or no... to restate, given that the spec requires the cursor and status bar to update as is common, then is it the case that when animate places a link over the cursor, the cursor and status bar are also updated? in fact afaik no browser has this behaviour... cheers