  Re: Reconsider SVG 1.2  From: Kurt Cagle <kurt@kurtcagle.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:04:32 -0800 Message-ID:
<419C4980.5020204@kurtcagle.net>  I'm in the midst of writing an
editor using Firefox's XUL  implementation. Really very
powerful, but yeah, its still definitely a  work in progress, so
I understand about the crashes.  The flow model seems to be the
central point of contention here, so  getting away from all the
grand rhetoric (and cooling down a little  bit), I am trying to
figure out why specifically there is such a strong  argument
over the flow features. To summarise what I know, the CSS
model, if I read Ian Hixie's proposal correctly, assumes the
notion of a  columnated container, though nothing in the
specification specifically  addresses the question of overflow
yet (given that this proposal is  still being written, I
understand the rationale for this).  I presume  that there is
some provision in place for handling such features as  floats,
multiple column sizes and so forth. The SVG model