Comment 6 for bug 210109

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MenTaLguY (mental-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 210109] Re: Making a circle produces a Path, not a Circle element

> What, apart from the arcs, doesn't work on circles or ellipses?

The first thing that comes to mind is text-on-path, which was the reason
we started creating circles/ellipses as paths in the first place (being
able to put text on a circle was a popular request). There's also SVG
markers, and anything having to do with path nodes generally ... it
might actually be easier (and shorter) to list the SVG shape-related
features that *do* work with circles and ellipses, rather than listing
all the ones that don't. The features that *do* work are:

 - stroking and filling
 - use as a clipping path

Can you think of any others?