RE: [SVG 1.2] Make it less complex!

Hi, Philippe-

Obviously, Bjoern was exercising a delicious bit of wit. But for those
daunted by SVG programming (APIs and such), I strongly recommend Gavin
Kistner's ObjJob, which is a great interface lookup:
http://phrogz.net/ObjJob/ . For those that want to learn the basics of SVG
itself, I recommend the O'Reilly book by Eisenberg, SVG Essentials. It's a
good overview and reference.

BTW, I disagre with Bjoern... I think the Spec should simply be done in SVG,
so you can zoom way out before printing.

Regards-
-Doug 

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
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| [OT]
| In-Reply-To=<40fa5225.95783329@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>
| References=<40fa5225.95783329@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>
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| I tried not to break this wonderful thread but I subscribed 
| only recently to the mailing list so I can access this 
| message only by Web interface. I have the "respond to this 
| message" link, but for some reason Mozilla failed to register 
| itself as default e-mail client for my Win98SE system and I 
| certainly don't want to use Outlook Express to send this message!
| 
| I even tried to edit the source of the message but Mozilla 
| doesn't allow me to do that (fortunately...) and I didn't 
| dare to save as draft (which fails anyway!?) and edit it by 
| hand on the Draft mail archives...
| [/OT]
| 
| Dear Bjoern Hoehrmann,
| 
| I couldn't agree more with you: as a newcomer to SVG, I find 
| the specification quite daunting... Actually, I came see it 
| around 1999 and was repelled by the sheer size of the spec 
| and the fact there wasn't any tutorial on the subject (or 
| didn't found any).
| 
| Although I am a bit surprised by your assertion:
|  > Testings showed that already the last four steps reduce 
| the complexity  > and implementation cost of the SVG 
| specification to less than one  > third
| 
| I don't see how reducing the number of dead trees necessary 
| to print the specification (which is already an honourable 
| goal) can reduce the implementation cost, but I probably 
| missed something.
| 
|  > I could even think of just a single printed page!
| 
| It can be only some few words:
| 
| Make a drawing on a sheet of paper with whatever tool you 
| have handy (pen, pencil, brush, finger...).
| Scan this drawing.
| You are done.
| 
| Of course, as it is too simplistic, we can extend it to more 
| tools and medias, like canvas, Etch-a-Sketch, and such, but 
| this is already introducing too much complexity.
| 
| [MODE class="SERIOUS"]
| I suppose this answer a lot of complains, like the one I made 
| to myself (see above)...
| 
| But I really wish to have a handy quick reference, cutting 
| most of the "verbosity" of the specification, skipping small 
| details, omitting DOM (which can belong to another 
| reference), etc. But mentionnig each and every parameter.
| 
| This would not be a reference for implementors, of course, 
| but for end users which want to get in pace quickly. Knowing 
| of course that once user get accainted with the whole 
| picture, he/she should read the whole specification as I do 
| currently. It is much less intimidating once you got the grasp of SVG.
| And it will remain a good tool while hand-coding SVG files.
| 
| There are now a lot of good tutorials on the Web, but I am 
| not aware of such quick reference.
| 
| Of course, that's certainly not the role of the W3C to 
| release such a document! :-) [/MODE]
| 
| --
| Philippe Lhoste
| --  (near) Paris -- France
| --  Professional programmer and amateur artist
| --  http://Phi.Lho.free.fr
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