- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:12:04 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org
In the past years I mainly create SVG output with PHP in my art gallery (hundreds of different scripts), because I typically need random numbers and replication for families of similar objects. And of course, PHP is typically used for all the work arounds for bugs or viewers and missing features in SVG, often this works with families of similar objects. Well at least a smaller subset of such PHP-script generated, typically large outputs could be optimised with the option to vary attribute values systematically over some range or randomly with a declarative method. Obviously java-script/DOM does not do the job, because this does not work, if the viewer does not interprete java-script (due to limitations of the viewer of preferences of the user, this is never a reliable method), therefore generally one can forget about these decorative java-script features like canvas for such a purpuse. And concerning SVG fonts, if bugs in gaps in some often used viewers persist for an even longer time, the typical work around will become the cowpath: Convert the text to arbitrary path data and don't care about accessible text (anymore). Olaf
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