- From: Brad Neuberg <bkn3@columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:17:17 -0700
Here's the VML standard if folks are interested: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-VML-19980513 How closely does IE correspond to the VML standard? I love the idea of embracing and extending things from Microsoft, co-opting them. ;) Brad At 01:17 AM 4/25/2005, Jim Ley wrote: >On 4/25/05, Brad Neuberg <bradneuberg at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > If successful shipped implementations is what > > > matters, then there's > > > lots of successful IE extensions that do the same as > > > canvas and other > > > elements which it would be much more sensible to go > > > with. > > > > I'm not against that; I thought one of the ideas > > behind the WHAT working group is to take already > > working defacto standards and simply specify them and > > implement them in other browsers, such as innerHTML > > and XmlHttpRequest. I'd much rather choose an already > > existing, if not perfect, canvas or drawable surface > > type defacto standard than create an imaginary > > "perfect" one like we seem to be doing on this list. > > Running code is king.... > >Great, lets go with VML, supported on the majority of desktops out >there, used by high profile sites such as Google, It's a much better >option albeit more complicated than canvas. > >Jim. Brad Neuberg, bkn3 at columbia.edu Senior Software Engineer, Rojo Networks Weblog: http://www.codinginparadise.org ===================================================================== Check out Rojo, an RSS and Atom news aggregator that I work on. Visit http://rojo.com for more info. Feel free to ask me for an invite! Rojo is Hiring! If you're interested in RSS, Weblogs, Social Networking, Java, Open Source, etc... then come work with us at Rojo. If you recommend someone and we hire them you'll get a free iPod! See http://www.rojonetworks.com/JobsAtRojo.html.
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