RE : RE : RE : What is the best way to design full vectorial scroll-downmenus with SVGT1.2

Thanks Robin.

It is exactly what I needed to understand.
I have to look at the SVG chapter on how SVG fonts work ... (sorry, I'm a real SVG beginner).

I personally feel that the viewBox chapter of the SVG 1.1 spec. (Yes, I have read this one) is not very clear about how to use it in order to design fully scalable widgets.
Or maybe there should be some more examples using % units and not hardcoded pixel sizes in the Specs. 
Especially for a format which is supposed to provide "Scalable" rendering.

I'm pretty sure that when SVGT gets adopted by the mobile industry and content providers, there will be a lot of content creators web sites giving resources/components, explaining how it works and giving scalable samples 
such as what you can find today for Macromedia Flash on http://www.flashxpress.net/ or any other famous Flash sites.

Vincent

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Robin Berjon [mailto:robin.berjon@expway.fr] 
> Envoyé : vendredi 25 juin 2004 18:44
> À : MAHE Vincent FTRD/DIH/REN
> Cc : www-svg@w3.org
> Objet : Re: RE : RE : What is the best way to design full 
> vectorial scroll-downmenus with SVGT1.2
> 
> 
> MAHE Vincent FTRD/DIH/REN wrote:
> > Yes, I want this kind of menus but isn't it possible not to mention 
> > dimensions in <svg width="160" height="240" ...> And to put 
> percentage 
> > values in basic forms like :
> > 
> > <rect fill="#fff" x="-80" y="-120" width="100%" height="50%"/>
> > 
> > Instead of : <rect fill="#fff" x="-80" y="-120" width="160" 
> > height="240"/>
> 
> That's not how it works but yes there is a solution to your 
> problem. For 
> one, in SVG Tiny you can only use units (and percentages are 
> units) on 
> the width and height of the rootmost <svg> element. What you would do 
> would be:
> 
> <svg width='100%' height='100%' viewBow='0 0 100 100'>
>    ...
>    <rect x='0' y='0' width='100' height='42'/>
>    ...
> </svg>
> 
> This would give you a <rect> filling up the top 42% of your screen.
> 
> > In HTML, as you certainly know, we often use this kind of 
> mechanisms 
> > since we don't know the screen size of the device.
> 
> It can only be different from HTML since the rendering model is 
> different but a similar feature is there.
> 
> > The S of SVG stands for "Scalable" which means that it must be 
> > possible to define fully scalable components in SVG ... no ?
> 
> Yes!
> 
> > What about the text ? What kind of fonts should I use in 
> order to have  
> > fully scalable text ?
> 
> The best is to use SVG fonts. You'll get the same font on all devices 
> and you can specify the font-size so that it scales.
> 
> > What I want to avoid is to be obliged to generate a different SVG 
> > stream for each target device : I just put my SVG file on a 
> web server 
> > and I'm sure that all mobile devices will be able to display it 
> > correctly in Full screen.
> 
> SVG provides for that, but I agree that one thing that is 
> missing is a 
> nice resource site on how content creators should use SVG 
> best in device 
> independent ways.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Berjon
>

Received on Friday, 25 June 2004 13:15:11 UTC