RE: SVG - A thought

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 maxdunn@siliconpublishing.com wrote:

  To date few if any of the interesting things that have been done with
  SVG have resembled Flash.

CMN on the other hand, many of the interesting things I have seen done with
Flash could easily be done with SVG and be more accessible.

max
  I think for tiny devices a scaled back spec makes sense, but compared to
  the size of typical browsers and operating systems of Today there is
  nothing bloated about Adobe's SVG Viewer on a PC.

  Rather than put a crippled form of SVG in web browsers, perhaps Adobe
  should put a rudimentary XHTML browser/XSLT Processor into their SVG
  Viewer.

The SVG group is working on several profiules, for smaller kinds of devices
that can't hold a full animated SVG viewer (and a static profile was already
defined in SVG 1.0 - Batik is almost completely conformant to that).
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG

On the other side, Jon Ferraiolo, editor of the SVG specification and an
Adobe SVG guy, was one of several SVG implementors who worked on the
production of a document explaining requirements for a component extension
framework, that would allow an SVG plugin to call an XHTML vrowser or XSLT
processor as a plugin for included content. This is going to be more
important as more types of content are used on teh Web - Math, music,
chemical information, etc. http://www.w3.org/TR/cx It is my hope that this
work will progress to a specification, and be implemented, to make the idea a
useful reality.

cheers

Charles

Received on Thursday, 20 December 2001 07:19:27 UTC