[svg-developers] Re: animating gradients

2010-09-21 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Another method might be to use an animated filter, probably using feColourMatrix. I use a filter like this to cause things to change colour in my web comic to show that something will happen (usually displaying a speach bubble) when you mouse over them. However this only works in ASV3

[svg-developers] Wow factors for website

2010-11-04 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, This is a bit off topic but SVG is my speciality and I'd like to get more work involvin it so that should be taken into consideration. Besides this is probably relevant to anybody trying to use a website to get web design work. A business contact recently said my website made it look as

[svg-developers] Re: Adobe AIR drops SVG

2010-12-21 Thread cremnosedum
I've been reading up on Canvas. It seems a huge hassel compared to SVG. You have to define this area (or multiple areas) on your page and then draw in them with JavaScript. Several JS functions are equivalent to one SVG element. Has somebody made a JS library that will handle the common

[svg-developers] Re: Display animation: wrong(?) keyTimes?

2010-12-29 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I assume the objective is to have the object visible from 0 to 10 seconds. In that case I would suggest you use set instead of animate: set attributeName=display attributeType=auto to=inline dur=10 begin=0/ The diplay attribute on your object should be none. Or set

[svg-developers] SVG on Wii

2010-12-29 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I've recently discovered that the web browser on Wii (is there more than one?) is based on Opera and supports SVG. However the support seems kind of clunky - slow and to some extent SMIL animation seems to interfere with JavaScript. I was testing my web comic:

[svg-developers] SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-12 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Opera 11 just installed itself on my computer. I tried testing my web comic (url in sig) and was shocked to discover that a lot of things (which mostly, or entirely worked in Opera 10) don't appear and the interactivity is erratic (perhaps because elements that receive events haven't been

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-13 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Thanks for your quick reply. --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Erik Dahlstrom ed@... wrote: I'm sorry to hear that. We have made substantial changes since Opera 10, fixing lots of bugs and generally improving svg performance, but it's of course inevitable that some new bugs pop

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-13 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Well I've just done a test case but I've still been unable to duplicate the problem. Obviously there's some factor besides multiple nested g and svg elements and changing display with JavaScipt. However the problem occures with http://www.pixelpalaces.com/dk/orientation.svgz, which is

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-14 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I don't know what tests you've conducted but cetainly in many frames of my comic the SMIL is the only thing that DOES work. However I think that my animated filter, used for the hot zones that make characters change colour if something will happen when you mouse over them, prevents other

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-14 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I've installed the latest snapshot and it still has the same problem. Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ The next stage in the evolution of web comics: http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/details/listing.php?comicID=4415 Read my Helium articles:

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-14 Thread cremnosedum
://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20360241008 Make money from discussing things: http://www.myLot.com?ref=Graptopetalum --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, cremnosedum richard@... wrote: However I think that my animated filter, used for the hot zones that make characters change colour

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Support in Opera 11

2011-01-16 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I've finally figured out the problem and filed a bug report. If you have an SVG file containing a container element (A) that has it's display set to none, set one of it's descendents (B) display attribute to none using Javascript and then use javascript to set A's display to inline, A

[svg-developers] Re: Strategy for text input

2011-01-23 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Jacob Beard jbeard4@... wrote: Also, just a note about SVG filters: I think they have only recently been added to Webkit, and so are not in currently release versions of Chrome and Safari. The last versions I tested: Chrome 5.0.375.70 tries to

[svg-developers] SVG from Blender

2011-02-02 Thread cremnosedum
For several years I've been modling space ships and things in Blender and then exporting to SVG with a python script. The trouble was that the script left quiet a bit to be desired, didn't work with newer versions of Blender and now I've discovered that models created in newer versions of

[svg-developers] Re: Release of SVG Web

2011-02-09 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I apreciate the effort but is this basically a fools errand. I can't help thinking that by the time they get SVG Web to the level of ASV or Opera, there's a fair chance that all browsers will also have pretty much full SVG implimentation and nobody will be using versions of IE prior to 9.

[svg-developers] Re: a brick pattern

2011-02-15 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, This looks really amazing. Not being able to do bricks, tiles etc. in perspective has been a major irritant to me. --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, ddailey@... wrote: Back some time ago, there was discussion (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/59832 [1]

[svg-developers] Re: convert SVG to Png on WEB

2011-03-08 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, If you just want to convert an SVG to png or jpg, the best way is probably as follows: Open SVG in browser of your choice. If you like, you can use pan and zoom, run the animation to the desired point or set interactive features. Press Alt + PrtScr. Open a new file in the bitmap

[svg-developers] How the heck do you get Pantograph to work?

2011-03-09 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Pantograph (http://severnclaystudio.wordpress.com/bluebeard/) is a Python script to render Blender (3D graphics program - http://www.blender.org/) files as SVG (or SWF but I'm trying to render to SVG). The trouble is I can't get it to work and I'm hoping somebody here knows how to do it.

[svg-developers] SVG export from Blender

2011-04-10 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I'm starting to think the Pantograph project (http://severnclaystudio.wordpress.com/bluebeard/) is effectively dead. I hope this isn't true but the latest material on the site seems to date from 2008. There doesn't seem to be any plan for a Blender 2.5 version (this will require a lot

[svg-developers] Re: SVG export from Blender

2011-04-14 Thread cremnosedum
://www.myLot.com?ref=Graptopetalum --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Jacob Beard jbeard4@... wrote: Did you email the author? Jake On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:12 PM, cremnosedum richard@...wrote: Hi, I'm starting to think the Pantograph project ( http://severnclaystudio.wordpress.com

[svg-developers] Re: SVG export from Blender - Freestyle

2011-04-14 Thread cremnosedum
/group.php?gid=20360241008 Make money from discussing things: http://www.myLot.com?ref=Graptopetalum --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, cremnosedum richard@... wrote: Hi, I've just tried to email Stevern Clay but I can't find his email on the website, it only seems to be possile to respond via

[svg-developers] Ruby on Rails and SVG

2011-05-15 Thread cremnosedum
I've been looking into Ruby on Rails for developing websites. There are lots of plug in for it. I tried searching for SVG plug-ins and couldn't find any. Has anybody used Ruby on Rails for an application using SVG? If so how well does it work? Richard Pearman

[svg-developers] Firefox 5

2011-07-19 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I thought Firefox 5 was supposed to have hugely improved SVG support (or am I imagining things or have I slipped into a parallel universe where things are only slightly different?). However I've just finished testing it against my web comic and, if anything, it seems slightly worse (e.g.

[svg-developers] Re: Firefox 5

2011-07-19 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Thanks for your speedy reply. I mentioned foreinObject because it's a feature I don't use so I wouldn't notice if it was added (and I obviously hadn't) or improved. The problems I've found with Firefox 5 (although the last version was pretty similar) are: No support of filters that

[svg-developers] Re: Title or desc tag in text tag?

2011-07-21 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I've tried to make my web comic more accessible by using desc elements (for example, I have descriptions of each scene and a desc for writing which uses paths rather than text) but I don't enough about accessibility software to tell if it's effective. I'm assuming that text elements can

[svg-developers] Google Chrome 13

2011-08-26 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Browser updates have been coming thick and fast lately. I've just tested Chrome 13. Unfortunately they've managed to introduce a new bug and don't seem to have dealt with any of the old ones. The new one involves filters that use feBlend to combine the results of feTurbulance with the

[svg-developers] Re: Free WebSocket server / HTML5 (all for you)

2011-08-29 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Perhaps you can give some examples of what this will be able to do or links to something that explains why one might want to use a websocket server. If it sounds like something that I think customers would be interested in, then I would probably be interested in using it. Richard Pearman

[svg-developers] How do you replicate?

2011-10-12 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Sorry about double antendra title! What I'm asking about this the replicate.js file. I know how to upload it and associate it with my SVG files. However I can't find anything that says, In order to draw a conical gradient you should ... etc. Have I missed something? Is this just

[svg-developers] Re: Inkscape namespace in javascript

2011-11-02 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I'm not sure what you're trying to acheive her. I get rid of all Inkscape's namespaces (now you can do it by simply choosing Optimized SVG from Inkscape's Save as dialouge box) and then add the JavaScript. Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ The next stage in the evolution

[svg-developers] Re: Scaling behaviour and the browser

2012-01-10 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I've found that in Chrome, some SMIL produces error messages (these are generated by a Javascript function with try catch). I've also found that SMIL animations don't trigure other SMIL or Javascript when they should. Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ The next stage in

[svg-developers] Re: Scaling from center point of element

2012-01-27 Thread cremnosedum
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, gjella gjella@... wrote: Hi! I'm having trouble scaling a g-tag from center point. The item will grow right/bottom, but I need to scale the element from its center point, growing in all directions. I'm using the animateTransform for scaling:

[svg-developers] clippling replicate objects

2012-06-03 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, I'm trying to use replicate to provide realistic shading in realistic pictures. Unfortunately, it's difficult to make replicate objects the required shape (or is there a WYSIWYG replicate drawing program I don't know about?) so the obvious solution is to use clip paths. ?xml version=1.0

[svg-developers] SVG still being developed?

2012-06-15 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, A while back I mentioned SVG to a friend who knows a lot about computers. He said it was no longer beind developed, rather dismisively, and didn't seem willing to elaborate on what he meant by that. I was doubtful about that as it seemed that all the major browsers were improving their SVG

[svg-developers] Re: SVG still being developed?

2012-06-18 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Perhaps I should have said that I test browsers with my web comic. This has lots of features, some of which aren't supported by some browsers - animated filters, filters that access the background graphic, SMIL, Javascript, internal fonts, text on paths etc.. However there are some things

[svg-developers] Why so much traffic on my site?

2012-07-04 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Freehostia recently suspended my web site for a day because it had too much traffic. Generally this would be good as it would indicate that a lot of people are visiting my site. However, Google Analytics shows a depressingly small number of visitors. I think the most likely cause is people

[svg-developers] Re: Why so much traffic on my site?

2012-07-05 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, The first thing is to diganose why I'm getting contradictory information about the amount of traffic I'm getting. If I really am getting a lot more traffic than I thought, I probably should do things to try to convert it into income. I could then justify to myself and my wife spending more

[svg-developers] SVG vs SVGZ vs ?

2012-07-05 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Marty Sullivan has claimed that it's better to put SVG's on your website as SVG rather than SVGZ. I've yet to hear that from anybody else so I'd like to know the opinion of others on this. There is a third option, particularly if you have multiple simiar files (as is likely with a web

[svg-developers] Re: The Graphical Web / SVG Open 2012 conference

2012-08-03 Thread cremnosedum
Hi, Is there a banner or something that I can use to link to the Graphical Web site? Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ The next stage in the evolution of web comics: http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/details/listing.php?comicID=4415 Read my Helium articles: