svg.elements.marker.orient - orient="auto-start-reverse" is SVG2 feature; needs compat data
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Description
MDN URL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/orient
What specific section or headline is this issue about?
Usage notes
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
The description of the allowed values of the orient attribute of a <marker> element does not provide versioning information. Therefore, the documentation does not help in determining that the value auto-start-reverse is an SVG2 extension.

What did you expect to see?
I would like the "Note" box to explicitly mention that this feature is only supported in SVG2 and later:

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?
Orient attribute in SVG 1.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OrientAttribute
Orient attribute in SVG 2: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/painting.html#OrientAttribute
Do you have anything more you want to share?
This issue is split off from mdn/content#22061 as advised by @queengooborg.
It was first found by the Gitlab user KrIr17 when investigating a versioning issue in Inkscape (open-source SVG editor).
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Research direction
Start with the MDN orient attribute page's Usage notes and compare the SVG 1.1 and SVG 2 Orient Attribute references linked in the issue. Update the relevant compatibility data so auto-start-reverse is identified as an SVG2 feature, then verify that the resulting note is displayed correctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- json
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100