Hi Tom,
On 16/01/07, Tom Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Personal opinions etc...
Whilst I really like the idea of an open standard for vector graphics
over the web I don't think SVG is a contender (yet) for the following
reasons:
- The access problems Jason mentions, saying something's
accesible without reference to how many people are able to access it
/right now/ seems odd to me.
- The speed at which reasonably complex shapes can be animated
is painful slow (esp. compared to what you can do with Flash 9 and AS3).
I think you'll find this is an implementation issue - Opera is far
quicker to render SVG than Firefox. So much that you wouldn't notice
it being SVG.
I presume that will change with Firefox 3 using cairo...
- The real killer for me though is file size; the maps we use
for the election coverage[1] are based on SVG files output from Adobe
Illustrator. An SVG file for the British Isles at the level of detail we
use is around 2 or 3 Mb. The Flash file which we produce from it, at
exactly the same detail level is closer to 100kb.
There is a penatly for using XML, true. Have you tried to gzip your SVG files ?
Most browser clients can easily accept .svg.gz files just like a normal .svg
Otherwise, i'd still expect Flash to optimize that coast line.
I'd be interested to look at those SVG files btw, but I assume they're
OS copyrighted?
Oh, I think this is the first time I've posted here, so hello everyone!
Nice to meet you.
Tom
[1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/flash_map/html/map05.stm
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