variable width stroke proposal status
Offbeatmammal opened this issue · 2 comments
I've been trying to 'fake' variable width lines using fill, but found this proposal which would potentially make the job a lot easier (even in it's simplest form of allowing a 'start' and 'end' width and smoothly adjusting along the path).
It appears last time this had any action was in 2013, so I'm guessing it's not going anywhere, but thought it was worth checking
It looks like that was my proposal and from what I can tell it was discussed at the 2013 Tokyo F2F. I then updated the proposal in Septmber. I don't know if it was ever discussed after that. (I notice the polyfill is broken too because we deprecated several SVG path APIs.)
I think since that point browsers have been investing less in new SVG features for various reasons. I believe I might also have received feedback offline that adding primitives not natively supported by underlying graphics libraries would be a significant hurdle for many implementations.
thanks, I guess with the workaround of manually creating the shape and filling is a solution (and doesn't add complexity, or require extra work from browsers).