Re: [svg-developers] Re: Firefox 1.5 with SVG now officially released (A word of appreciation.)

2005-12-09 Thread Jonathan Watt
Thanks Marjorie. It's very kind of you to say so publicly. It would certainly be very cool if InstantAtlas could get their content working in FF. If they need any help I'd be glad to see what I can do. All the best, Jonathan On 12/8/05, Marjorie Roswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You write

Re: [svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Robin Berjon
On Dec 09, 2005, at 02:27, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: Granted that learning a new grammar is easily than learning new tools - but that's also a bit of an argument for saying that programmers today are lazy... It's not laziness, it's cost analysis. Reducing the number of formats is a

RE: [svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Birbeck
Leonard, This is all true, but the key thing about XML is not its actual format (i.e., angle brackets, quotes, attributes, elements, etc.) but its *abstract* format. Take XQuery and XPath; with these languages you can query any data that can be cajoled into 'looking like' a hierarchical XML

[svg-developers] CARTO.NET

2005-12-09 Thread mchua1980
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[svg-developers] Re: CARTO.NET

2005-12-09 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, we had a severe disk crash recently on the carto.net/svgopen.org server and am currently rebuilding the system. It takes quite a while to re-install all modules, configurations, files, etc. We hope to be online soon again. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com,

[svg-developers] SVG IN SVG

2005-12-09 Thread Petronel Laviniu MALUTAN - Talente.ro
Hi everyone I've managed to insert into SVG binary data from BLOB MYSQL fields as: image width=314 height=131 x=50 y=30 xlink:href=data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABk Please tell me how it should look svg inside on other SVG ? Should I use again

[svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread ayrton_senna_lives_ok
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does a file format/specification simply being based on XML make it better than one that isn't? Why I prefer XML 1. It is text. Text is good for debugging over the wire because it imposes no

[svg-developers] New to SVG

2005-12-09 Thread vibhor_agg2003
Hi, I am a 3rd year computer engineering student who came to kno about this group from svg.org, i am new to this field and want to choose SVG as the area of interest for a project that I need to develope for my Winter Training this semster. I would be glad if any of you could suggest me some

RE: [svg-developers] accessing anchors inside a svg

2005-12-09 Thread Doug Schepers
Hi, Tom- Unfortunately, you are bumping into a limitation of the available viewers, and possibly a problem with the language. Your example has a flaw, too. I've encountered this before, and have an example [1]. Problem 1: Fragment identifiers (myurl.ext#fragmentID) in IE+ASV get lost when you

Re: [svg-developers] accessing anchors inside a svg

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Liesner
Hi Doug, Doug Schepers schrieb: Problem 1: Fragment identifiers (myurl.ext#fragmentID) in IE+ASV get lost when you are working locally. So, you can link to a Web-based resource, but not a local one. This problem doesn't exist in Firefox. That wouldn't be a problem for a rather closed

Re: [svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Ronan Oger
Some time ago, I watched a television show that linked the size of the US space shuttle's liquid booster rocket to the distance between two horses in a 2-horse cart. My point is that technology is built on top of old technology, and XML is such an example. We have built so much on top of the

RE: [svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Doug Schepers
Hi, Ayrton (Senna?)- Thanks for an amusing and well-stated post. I have never before heard XML's verbosity used as an argument for it's brevity. Well done. :) Regards- Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. ayrton_senna_lives_ok wrote: | | --- In

[svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Jim Ley
ayrton_senna_lives_ok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6. It is relaxing for humans to write. So orderly. 7. It is easy for humans to edit. So free of overheads. The majority of

[svg-developers] Questions 1 - 8

2005-12-09 Thread david dailey
As threatened in an earlier post, I have several new questions that I've been toying with. I suspect someone knows. 1. Is there a way, using filters, to take an image A and produce it photographic negative A', such that 255-C(A)=C(A') for each channel C in {R,G,B)? I've fooled a bit with the

Re: [svg-developers] accessing anchors inside a svg

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Lilley
On Friday, December 9, 2005, 5:37:27 PM, Doug wrote: DS Problem 1: Fragment identifiers (myurl.ext#fragmentID) in IE+ASV get DS lost when you are working locally. So, you can link to a Web-based DS resource, but not a local one. This problem doesn't exist in DS Firefox. Its a limitation of the

[svg-developers] firstChild.setData does not work in FF?

2005-12-09 Thread zou wei
Hi: the following code works at IE+adobe, but not in FF. should I use something other than setData()? thanks wei ?xml version=1.0 standalone=no? svg width=10cm height=3cm viewBox=0 0 1000 300 xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg; version=1.1 descExample text01 - 'Hello, out there' in

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Lilley
On Friday, December 9, 2005, 7:32:48 PM, Jim wrote: JL ayrton_senna_lives_ok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message JL news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6. It is relaxing for humans to write. So orderly. 7. It is easy for

RE: [svg-developers] firstChild.setData does not work in FF?

2005-12-09 Thread Doug Schepers
Hi, Wei- Try: evt.target.firstChild.nodeValue = 'hello,where are you'; But that will only work if there is already a childnode there (such as a space or CDATA entity). Otherwise, it's safer to do this: var myText = SVGDocument.createTextNode('hello,where are you'); newLabel.appendChild(

[svg-developers] CE, CEF files, what are they and how do you extract them?

2005-12-09 Thread gee_whiz_bang
The files section of this group and another website use CE or CEF files for examples without any explanation of what format this is. It seems to be a compressed format of some sort, but what in the heck is it? I have not heard of this before, and I'm far from a newbie. Since it is so

Re: [svg-developers] CE, CEF files, what are they and how do you extract them?

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Lilley
On Saturday, December 10, 2005, 2:40:24 AM, gee_whiz_bang wrote: g The files section of this group and another website use CE or CEF files g for examples without any explanation of what format this is. g It seems to be a compressed format of some sort, but what in the heck g is it? I have not

[svg-developers] Re: Adobe/Macromedia

2005-12-09 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hey Randy, I missed this post earlier. A few months ago I would probably have not fully understood your comments. But these times are so interesing and dynamic for SVG, that now I am more than hopeful, actually convinced, that you hit the nail straight on its head. Regards, Francis --- In

[svg-developers] Updating Image file

2005-12-09 Thread cmragsdale1
I'm new to SVG and need some help. What I need to do is allow users to draw shapes on a jpg image (in this case a map). This is all set up and working very nicely. In order to get the jpg to serve as a canvas, it appears that the jpg has to be part of the SVG document. I do,however, need to be

RE: [svg-developers] CE, CEF files, what are they and how do you extract them?

2005-12-09 Thread Doug Schepers
Hi, Geoffrey- | The files section of this group and another website use CE or | CEF files for examples without any explanation of what format | this is. CEF (Compact Embedded Font) is a font format Adobe uses in its SVG viewer. Though it was intended to be an open specification, I'm not sure

[svg-developers] Re: Updating Image file

2005-12-09 Thread Francis Hemsher
I don't how much I can help you, but you said the magic words here in SVG-land, so that many folks may try to assist you: I'm new to SVG and need some help Just a thought.. SVG elements are GIF-friendly. Is there a way you can maintain the background JPG canvas and overlay the SVG elements

Re: [svg-developers] Updating Image file

2005-12-09 Thread cmragsdale
Thanks, I'll try that. What I had tried was: svgdoc.getElementById('image').setAttributeNS('xlink:href', 'image.png'); and that doesn't do anything. It doesn't error, but it doesn't do anything. Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo!

Re: [svg-developers] Updating Image file

2005-12-09 Thread Jonathan Watt
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. What I had tried was: svgdoc.getElementById('image').setAttributeNS('xlink:href', 'image.png'); and that doesn't do anything. It doesn't error, but it doesn't do anything. Strange. In FF 1.5 if you don't