- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:34:26 +0100
- To: Andreas Neumann <neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc>, www-svg@w3.org
On Monday, March 15, 2004, 11:46:39 AM, Andreas wrote: >> I feel strongly that having some degree of this functionality is better >> than having none at all, and I think that this is something that would be >> easy to do in a simple form. These are things that Flash has in its >> toolkit, and I'd like to see them in SVG. The utility that this would >> have for SVG would be very worthwhile. AN> Thanks Doug, for raising this issue - yes, from a cartographer's/GIS point AN> of view having intersection lists and methods exposed, would be very AN> useful! It is important to most of the vector based spatial analysis and AN> would allow building more complex GIS tools and cartographic interactivity AN> around SVG. AN> On the other hand SVG 1.2 is already getting very big and I would rather AN> like to see SVG 1.2 coming out soon and having 1.3 or 2.0 adding missing AN> features. If we start adding more and more features we should really change AN> to SVG 2.0 immediately and rather skip SVG 1.2. SVG 1.2 is supposed to be in 'feature slush' right now. An interesting state somewhere between frozen and molten. OTOH exposing functionality that already exists is fine, as long as it really does already exist. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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