Allan,
it's not "very easy just to use the BBC feed as the basis for one of
your own which used SVG icons."
see query 2 below.
regarding metadata, for instance copyright and language variants can
be incorporated as per http://www.peepo.co.uk as does scaling, see
same example, as mentioned below the current gifs dont even have
transparency, at least they didnt, so the results are very ugly....
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
On 7 Dec 2007, at 18:22, Allan Jardine wrote:
Jonathan,
I am also very much a fan of SVG, and would like to see it adopted a
lot more. However, I'm not sure I see what advantage SVG has for a
weather icon over alt="Rain" (for example) on a gif in terms of
accessibility (other factors such as scaling etc appear not to come
into it as Brendan said). Sure you can add meta data, but that is
likely already embedded in the content around the icon. Could you
explain how it would help?
It would be very easy just to use the BBC feed as the basis for one
of your own which used SVG icons.
Allan
On 7 Dec 2007, at 17:54, ~:'' ありがとうございました。
wrote:
Brendan,
this is a backstage list, so 'current audience' requirements here
may be different, see below:
1 iirc the bbc gifs provided have no transparency, so as far as
backstage is concerned they produce pretty ugly results in my
experience, generally contrasting rectangles floating on a google map.
however and beyond this, weather might be a reasonable place for
the bbc to start experimenting with SVG feeds. It is a w3c web
standard technology with significant metadata and accessibility
advantages, which cannot be said of gifs or flash which is
proprietary, and one where the BBC has spent very significant
budgets. http://www.peepo.co.uk demonstrates how svg weather
symbols might be integrated.
2 the thread given previously has more detail, please find attached
just one example "cloudy" please check feed data for 25/07/07
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
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