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svg.elements.fe*.kernelUnitLength - `kernelUnitLength` is deprecated

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Description

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Attribute/kernelUnitLength

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

According to the specification, this attribute has been deprecated in <feConvolveMatrix> and <feDiffuseLighting>:

<feConvolveMatrix> Note, <feDiffuseLighting> Note
Note: This attribute is deprecated and will be removed. It does not provide a reliable way to create platform-independent results. Future versions of this specification will cover this use case.

(<feSpecularLighting> doesn't has this note)

I ran simple tests, and it seems that this attribute has no effect in Chrome, even in <feSpecularLighting>. (To be fair, I don’t fully understand its intended purpose, so it’s possible I used it incorrectly.)

What did you expect to see?

If the attribute is indeed deprecated, the documentation should explicitly mark it as such.

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Read files/en-us/web/svg/reference/attribute/kernelunitlength/index.md and compare its current wording with the linked Filter Effects specification notes. Update the documentation to explicitly mark kernelUnitLength as deprecated for the elements covered by those notes, while checking the feSpecularLighting distinction; done means the page accurately reflects the cited specification.

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