- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:01:23 -0700
- To: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
- CC: Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, Frank Olivier <Frank.Olivier@microsoft.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, Canvas <public-canvas-api@w3.org>
On 7/18/2011 1:33 PM, Kurt Cagle wrote: > I still think that you could get marginally better performance out of > Canvas, but I don't believe this means that you can't get decent > performance numbers from SVG as well, especially assuming that you > have a Javascript optimizer at some point in the mix. More people work > with Canvas because it's been supported more comprehensively until > recently, but I suspect that you'll see more SVG moving forward as the > capabilities improve there (and I've become VERY impressed with SVG on > Chrome especially). One of the developers I work with is quite excited about "booting" resources up from SVG scripts; he's still using Canvas, but the interchange format is SVG -- so it works well with authoring tools. SVG does have quite a bit of support with static-scene authoring tools. With SVG implementations finally catching up with the spec, we're certainly going to see SVG used in more situations. As a canvas developer, I still prefer SVG over PNG and/or JSON objects as the medium for stashing icons and other artwork. I use SVG if it's available and working, I render it up in Canvas with a parser if SVG is not available/working. With more SVG support out there, there is more incentive to package vector artwork in addition to the traditional method of packaging PNGs/JPG/GIF. There is still a very -large- gulf between browser-based SVG viewing, with HTML+SVG+ECMAScript, and static SVG, as rendered by many SVG viewers. I don't expect to see a growing trend of animated SVG in the near future, but we'll certainly see, and Adobe has certainly made a contribution to that sphere with their export tools. -Charles
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