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'Segment-completing close path operation' command not implemented #893
Description
The spec for the Segment-completing close path operation command was added 4 years ago and hasn't been implemented by any browser yet.
(https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/paths.html#PathDataClosePathCommand). Currently it only exists in the spec, and as a failing wpt test.
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yotam-hacohen commentedon Aug 11, 2022
consider removing it from the spec?
[-]'closepath' command not implemented[/-][+]'Segment-completing close path operation' command not implemented[/+]Doktorchen commentedon Aug 12, 2022
The commands z and Z are already defined in SVG 1.0.
It is used in several path tests in the SVG 1.1 test suite without known problems.
SVG 1.1 second edition is a recommendation, therefore some viewers passed such tests as well as other tests from other persons like me.
Can you explain precisely including an example, which viewer has a problem with this command?
If you want to remove such basic features from SVG 2 (?), you better remove the complete SVG 2 - what would be reasonable, because it has no relevant advantages anymore compared to SVG 1.1 and SVG 1.2 tiny after lot of new features identified to be required have been removed over the years ;o)
progers commentedon Aug 12, 2022
This issue is for reconsidering the newly added "Segment-completing close path operation" which has not been implemented in any browser, nor in tools such as inkscape. An example can be found in segment-completing.svg.
Regular closepath commands like Z and z are definitely here to stay :)
Doktorchen commentedon Aug 12, 2022
Oh, it is more about this section of the draft, not about a path segment or command:
https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/paths.html#Segment-CompletingClosePath
Sure, it is not obvious, what it means or how to implement, because basic shapes have to be equivalent to ordinary paths with defined syntax.
The wording of the section seems to be contradictory, surely something either to remove or to fix before such a draft section can become implemented and the draft can become a recommendation, if this happens at all somehow ;o)
karlcow commentedon Jun 18, 2026
This is is now https://w3c.github.io/svgwg/specs/paths/#PathDataClosePathCommand
dirkschulze commentedon Jun 18, 2026
RESOLUTION: Remove section 9.3.4.1
https://www.w3.org/2026/06/18-svg-minutes.html
Merge pull request #1138 from karlcow/893-segment-completing
[SVG] Remove segment-completing close path WPT
[SVG] Remove segment-completing close path WPT
[SVG] Remove segment-completing close path WPT
Bug 2049913 [wpt PR 60826] - [SVG] Remove segment-completing close pa…
Update definitions.xml
fix w3c#893 - drop section about completion of segments.
fix w3c#893 - drop the remaining segment-completing references
Merge pull request #1162 from karlcow/893-segment-completing-remainder
Bug 2049913 [wpt PR 60826] - [SVG] Remove segment-completing close pa…