- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:16:04 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:02:55 +0100, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann > <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de> wrote: >> I think, this part of the working draft would be more convincing, if >> there was an element like animation (as in SMIL, SVG Tiny 1.2 or >> vector or however one might call it) to reference vector graphics too >> (optionally with server-sided >> generation to avoid user-sided scripting) - either as an external file >> similar to audio or video or to embed it in a mixed document XHTML+SVG >> as a clear separation... > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-declarative.html > marks 2D vector graphics and animation out of scope because it is > already adequately addressed by SVG which can be embedded in XHTML. For various reasons, many members of this working group (correctly, IMHO) believe that XHTML is a non-starter for most people. > Embedding SVG (and MathML for instance) in HTML is an area I and others > have been looking into during the TPAC (and also on this mailing list, > on weblogs, etc.), but we don't have a good enough proposal yet or > implementation experience for that matter to show that it could actually > work. Some prior work in this area, some may be dead ends, others may pan out: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/05/HOWTO-Embed-MathML-and-SVG-into-HTML4 http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/18/application-xhtml http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/05/04/Inline-SVG-in-MSIE http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/09/11/SVG-on-IE-via-Silverlight-Revisited http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/10/18/SVG-in-HTML-Momentum-Building - Sam Ruby
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