Re: SVG Icons [Re: Guideline 3.4 comment (ralative vs. absolute units)]

On Sunday 17 November 2002 3:56 pm, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
|  Vadim and others may like to comment on a recent posting to
|  svg-commments@w3.org:
|  (does this relate to the slow uptake of SVG?)

Hmmm.  Do you have complete URL to that posting?
I am re-subscribed to www-SVG mailing list again (just few days ago), but 
haven't seen that mail.

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|  3.8 Is the relationship between vector, raster, clipping and scaling
|  receiving sufficient attention, given that SVG does not at present
|  offer an independent method for representing photographic type images.

Is it Bad or Good?
Good photography is about 15MB-30MB in size.
Do you really want to put such image on web, especially in SVG wrapper?

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|  Clipping, masking and object opacity
|
|  is it possible to:
|  scale clipping gracefully?
|  implement simply?
|
|  please compare with jpg and gif, with which:
|  masked images scale well
|  a fill tool will often clip simply and attractively (no harsh edges.)
|
|  or is SVG more reasonably compared with image maps, which are intended
|  to be viewed at a pre-determined scale?

My experience shows that SVG can be scaled quite well, but not for small 
sizes.
I am having problem producing 16x16 and 22x22 (pixmap) icons from source SVG 
file (which is designed for 128x128).
At small size, you face problem of grid-fitting, hinting, etc. - which is 
similiar to hinting procedure in fonts (for rendering of glyphs at small 
sizes)

|
|  If anyone has an example of a scaling clipped region that uses a
|  photographic type image, and remains attractive, whilst being easily
|  implemented, or cannot understand this issue, then please excuse this
|  post and advise me.

From my expereince, scaling images to small sizes doesn't work well.
I have tried different packages, differetn filters- and it's all the same.
Either you have enough pixels (high dpi value) or you don't.

|
|  thanks
|
|  Jonathan Chetwynd
|
|  http://www.peepo.com is a web directory for people with severe learning
|  difficulties, and uses many photographs of faces, to enhance clarity
|  backgrounds are either transparent or the same colour as the
|  (pre-chosen CSS) background. When resizing the window, all images scale
|  reasonably in real time.

Indeed, they rescale.  Looks interesting ;-)
Why don't you use SVG graphics than?
I think it would be more natural.

|
|  ps: Vadim
|  great to see your lovely icons.
|  have you visited http://www.peepo.com recently?
|  we have a very real and present need for easily understood icons.

Do you want me to help with some of icons?
That site looks like quite inetresting.  Where do you get current pictures 
from?

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Vadim Plessky
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