- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:11:04 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
"Philippe Lhoste" <PhiLho@GMX.net> wrote in message news:417AA04A.3080709@GMX.net... > > Kevin Hughes wrote: > > Hello, everyone. I've made a small demonstration application, an SVG > > color picker, which is my first foray into the world of SVG. You can > > view it here: > > > > http://www.kevcom.com/colorpicker/ > > Wow, this is quite impressive, definitively not your average "Hello > World!" application!... I'm getting script errors in IE - safari may be swallowing these, I've heard reports of the plugin on the mac doing so. > > I can't get flattened submenus in the context (right-click) menu. > > The cursor style is not recognized. > > Background transparency doesn't work on Macs. > > Implementation issues. Well the first about the context menu is a request for a feature, as that's not an SVG feature at all. > > Would be nice to use PHP instead of JS (via Parrot?). > > And Lua! And other people will want Python, Ruby, Perl, VBScript... > Basically a nice idea, but in practice quite a mess, as you would need a > specific viewer to see a given SVG... > Note that one could imagine a viewer with pluggable language, but still > messy: "to see my SVG, download this language extension"... Internet explorer has a pluggable language, (I don't know of a php, but perl python and more), everyone uses javascript, not because it's better, but because it's ubiquitous. > > It would be nice to get the color at a particular point. > > Already discutted recently on this very list. > I can't remember the conclusion, if any... It was in the last draft for raster images, I doubt there'll be a procedure defined for defining a point and coluor for a vector image (vector images don't have points, so therefore there's not a single colour) I agree that's a shame, but... Jim.
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