- From: Corne Beerse <beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:20:44 +0200
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
David J Woolley wrote: > > > Note: the only thing we need is the capabilities to make vector oriented > > pictures. The best thing I have seen in this relation is the draw > > > > In terms of semi-open standards, you already have Postscript and PDF > (and in my view PDF is technically the right approach for most > commercial web pages which are about form rather than content). No: PDF is an approach for distributing documents, not for web pages. A web page is one page at a time to be seen in a brouwser, where pdf is aimed at documents of more than one page to be printed on your local printer. > Machine generated Postscript tends to look complicated but simple > diagrams in hand coded Postcript really are quite simple. True: strip it to a core default (as with sgml <--> html), change tags to sgml tags and there you have something I meant. > PDF is Postcript minus programming but with file structuring for > fast navigation. It still has the same primitive graphic operations, > but they have to work on numbers, not expression. NO: try to read any postscript in your favorit editor, it will not complain about characters outside the readable ascii range where a pdf file contains binary data..... > There are also the ancient Unix draw commands and more recent FIG > ones. Just select one to include in html.... > > Commercially, there is Shockwave. .............. CB -- Try not to let implementation details sneak into design documents. Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland mailto:beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl | Postbus 3292 talkto:+31(70)3079108 faxto:+31(70)3079191 | NL-2280 GG Rijswijk
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