- From: Michael Gould <mgould@lander.es>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:00:53 -0000
- To: <MWhisman@aol.com>, <www-svg@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: <MWhisman@aol.com> To: <www-svg@w3.org> Sent: jueves 25 de febrero de 1999 11:57 Subject: Re: pieslice >OK, I'd certainly agree specialized symbol libraries belong in linked files, >which allow for extension, customization, and standardization for all who use >the linked files. > >I suppose the W3C might want to maintain a library of standard files that >define features of common shapes, fills, strokes, patterns, effects. It would >allow users to share such definitions regardless of which vendor's program >they use. Vendors or users could submit their files to the standards body so >new features could be included in future standards. Such library files would >need a way to indicate the version of SVG that they are written for, as well >as the version of the library file itself, such as svgversion="1.0" >libversion="2.1". I second this idea. We (geographic information community) would probably create and make available libraries of cartographic symbols: there are a lot of *badly designed* maps out there on the web, and so some standardization and registration of libraries may help. Cheers, Mike Gould http://www.lander.es/~mgould/
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