- From: Dave Landers <landers@boulder.vni.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:31:26 -0700
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, I may have missed something, but it looks like the <image> element is set up to XLink to external images. That is good, but I feel there should also be some facility for inline (non-external) images. If images are always separate, then the graphics containing both images and vector elements will rely on multiple documents, data streams, files, etc. I am evaluating SVG with the objective of using it as a graphics file and interchange format: saving graphics to a file as well as transmitting them between programs via a data stream. If I must save and organize multiple files or transmit multiple, independent streams, then I have more issues (that are unrelated to the graphics) than I really care to deal with. I am thinking that the <image> object should allow inline content (similar to what is done in PostScript, for example), or maybe it should be able to reference an inline image that is defined in a <defs> section. Thanks. -- Dave Landers Senior Software Engineer Visual Numerics, Inc.
Received on Tuesday, 16 February 1999 16:32:54 UTC