RE: Conf Call Agenda Feb 5th

Rob wrote:
"I'd like to discuss some ideas about SVG advocacy on existing projects.

I know building new things is a lot of fun but I remember last year Jeff

brought up some ideas about contributing to existing SVG projects. Maybe

we could extend that idea a little."

Yep!

My book [1] comes to mind (though it is probably a quite different kind
of project than you have in mind here). I knew I would get bogged down
in the middle of the fall semester, but some family issues arose which
have kept me a) bogged down over the winter break and b) playing
catch-up in a new course this semester. Bottom line: I've not had time
to do much of anything... sigh. It seems like a big project to just dust
off the cobwebs and get my head back into it. Does anyone see an easy
way for hands other than mine to do some of that work, in the meantime.
Ruud, for example, and some others have sent good suggestions on needed
revisions. It's just a matter of finding the time to incorporate them.
Maybe over spring break, I'll be able?

In the meantime, a new project that doesn't require so much
concentration has come to mind. I've started building a little
javaScript parser for SVG that would take the list of <replicate> tags
in a document (as discussed in [2] ), find each their parents, and then
clone those nodes appropriately as per a sensible syntax for the
embedded <replicate> (a spatial analog of the temporal <animate> tag.)
This would be a way of sort of exploring appropriate syntax for the
proposed tag and of showing proof of concept.

In building it I realized it was (given parallels in syntax) almost like
building a fakeSMIL interpreter in JavaScript. I have heard of a couple
of SMIL emulators (including one that Doug had done several years ago)
and wondered if there might be a way of borrowing the trunk of that code
into a <replicate> emulator. Declarative drawing is just as cool as
declarative animation I'm convinced, and the possibilities for interplay
between the two are exciting! That would be in the category of an
existing project twisted in a new direction.

David

[1] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/StateOfArt-Dailey.html 
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-ig/2008JulSep/0109.html

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