[css-inline] baseline-shift vs. vertical-align on SVG text
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Description
The spec has an open issue regarding support of baseline-shift: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline-3/#baseline-shift-property
At this point, WebKit, Blink and EdgeHTML support the baseline-shift property (some with bugs) for SVG text. Only Firefox doesn't support the baseline-shift property. Various non-browser UAs support baseline-shift on import as well.
On the other hand, there is no UA that supports vertical-align on SVG text. For that reason I'd like to ask to remove the issue from the spec and keep the baseline-shift property.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the CSS Inline Level 3 section linked in the issue and review the stated relationship between baseline-shift and vertical-align for SVG text. Done means resolving the specification issue in favor of the requested treatment, if the browser and non-browser support claims hold.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- documentation, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100