Deprecate <cursor> element

[jarek-foksa]

HTML 5 spec already states that user agents that implement SVG 1.1 must not implement the <cursor> element (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#dependencies).

What is the point of keeping it in SVG 2? It seems to duplicate functionality provided by the CSS "cursor" property.

[AmeliaBR]

I suppose there may be some use for this in non-web user agents. But since we're making CSS support mandatory, and CSS has cursor, I don't see any purpose to keeping it.

If the SVG <cursor> element allowed you to actually construct a cursor from SVG graphics elements, that would be different. But since it just specifies an image href, it doesn't add anything compared to the CSS property, I agree that it should at least be marked deprecated.

[SebastianZ]

@AmeliaBR According to this, the SVGCursorElement interface should also be marked as deprecated. Or is there a reason to keep it?

Sebastian

[SebastianZ]

For what it's worth, I just realized that the support for the interface got removed from Blink last month.

Sebastian