- From: Thierry Kormann <Thierry.Kormann@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:38:35 +0100
- To: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon <petilon@yahoo.com>
- cc: www-svg@w3.org
Apu, > Currently you need an enormous amount of resources > to create a complete SVG viewer. So much so, in fact, > that even big companies have no confidence that they > will be able to implement everything any time soon. What do you mean by complete SVG viewer. Which sub-category do you consider ? > To make a very good implementation of SVG you need > to have domain expertise not just in graphics > technology, but also in traditional browser > technologies such as (X)HTML and CSS. No companies > have expertise in both areas. Certainly, small > companies will find SVG unapproachable. yes if you want to create the _best_ Conforming High-Quality Dynamic SVG Viewer, I think it's normal that you need tons of developers (but it's the same for anything else). On the other hand, it's possible to have a static Stylable SVG viewer with few resources (I mean 2 developers :). > SVG is different from most other W3C specs in that > it won't be browser-makers that implement the best > viewers -- it will be graphics companies. These > graphics companies don't also have access to a ready > stack of other web-related technologies. yes you are right. But CSS is not really difficult to implement. It takes time but this is not difficult. > I hope SVG will be simplified a bit before it is > made final. we have to wait. Thierry. -- Thierry Kormann email: Thierry.Kormann@sophia.inria.fr http://www.inria.fr/koala/tkormann/ Koala/Dyade/Bull @ INRIA - Sophia Antipolis
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