svg viewbox scaling issue <p>I've a question about svg's viewbox, in my opinion it's like a window on an infinite svg plan, and its boundaries are set in the viewBox attribute of the svg element. It represents the rectangle between the 2 coordinates in the svg plan. So a viewBox of "0 0 1000 500" shows the window between (0,0) and (1000,500) of the svg plan. And when I make viewBox (2000, 0, 3000 500) i see the window of (2000,0) and (3000,500). x and y scaling is unmodified: in both cases i'm displaying 1000 * 500 units of the svg plan. </p> <p>But apparantly i go wrong some where. I'm experimenting with animating the viewbox to emulate some kind of ticker display, leaving the y coordinates untouched but changing the x coordinates (without changing the actual number of units displayed) but that goes wrong. Somehow my y-scaling changes. In a modern browser you can verify <a href="http://www.stretchsketch.com/tekst.html" rel="nofollow">yourself</a> (pull the slider to change the viewBox). What did I miss in the SVG specification?</p>