----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Z Grey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: Re: ImageManip
> > Heya, > > I actually considered that same thing when I was looking into this. > What I concluded is the following: > > - SVG is targeted at building images from the bottom up (simple > shapes, text, etc) for the purpose of simple, yet pretty pictures and > user interfaces (even animations!) well, look on it as HTML crossed with postscrupt > - SVG is targeted at wireless (and related) devices where the > bandwidth is limited That's one use, though the use I made of in a project last year involved server side rendering of photos and fonts at 1200dpi. Look at the 'when web services go bad' paper under http://iseran.com/ > - SVG does not include handling of files (read/write/formats/etc) handles reading just like html: <img src="xlink:href=http://myserver/image.jpg"; /> > - SVG does not include manipulation of existing image files, for > example, you cannot take a JPEG of a monkey and draw a circle on his > face... you can however create an image of a monkey using vectors, but > it'd be really really hard to make it look remotely realistic. see above. take the jpeg. overlay the vectors, use alpha blending > - My project is targeting manipulation of existing images, and > while SVG does have a good framework for their purposes, their model is > pretty obfuscated (in that its overly complex) I agree on the complex, think you missed some of the obvious bits of the spec in your rush to re-implement. > - SVG doesn't seem to support the chaining model, but rather > only allows you to draw to a single palette. unsure about what that means, or how SVG relates. > Further more, my envisioning allows the user to build complexity in > a hierarchical form; even extend by overloading one function, and it all > seems to fit nicely with the ANT framework. See where I'm coming from > with this? :) sort of -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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