Hi Lawrence, "Lawrence Gwynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/27/2006 11:20:49 PM:
> I recently posed a question about using SVG and was wondering if the group > would be willing to assist in the development of a website CMS system using > Ruby on Rails. This is my adventure down developing extensions, so I am > green, but if you can provide any assistance on this. We are always willing to answer questions, fix problems, make suggestions. I'm not 100% sure what you are looking for from the Batik project. > Lawrence > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Thomas Nichols > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [railfrog-dev] Re: Healthcare Industry > > > Hi Lawrence, > > There's often a schizoid reaction to SWF (as used by Flash) from web > developers. On the one hand it isn't an independent standard, the > Macromedia licensing[1] is not "open", Flash sites are not great for > accessibility. On the other hand, Flash is *very* widely deployed, it's > more common to find a brower with Javascript disabled than without Flash > - and the functionality is excellent. > > The open-standards vector format is SVG -- which has been adopted > slowly. Now that Mozilla has partial SVG support,[2] adoption might > accelerate - but animation is still unsupported (better supported in > Firefox 1.5), and SWF is already the de facto standard. There are a > couple of SVG plugins available, one of the most widely installed is > from Adobe, who are heavily committed to SVG and have as you say now > bought Macromedia. We're now seeing some indications from macromedia > that their SVG support will improve[3]. The real issue is tools for > creating the animations - there is AFAIK still nothing as good as the > Flash IDE available for SVG. > > As an "extension" to RailFrog, Flash and/or SVG support sound great - > but I wouldn't want any dependency on either to be built into the core. > If we're just discussing the ability to serve up Flash and SVG content, > that will certainly get my vote. > - Thomas. > > [1] http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/developer/ > [2] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html > [3] http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/articles/msvg_t.html > > > > Pepwin wrote on 26/02/06 08:54: > > >Hello, > > This is one of the more interesting projects I have seen on the > >net after reading about Rails on Ruby. Currently, I am > >supporting/developing software for a company in the Healthcare Industry > >using OO and doing website development at night/wkends. > > In any case, I would like to contribute sometime down the road - I > >still have a few projects I have to complete - and I need to read up on > >Ruby and Rails some more. > >There is or may be one point of interest for the group: how to develop > >and incorporate Flash, Flash elements easier into a website CMS. A lot > >of my website development clients (musicians and artist) like those > >delivery systems according to my guy getting me website projects. In > >addition, I have a good feeling that Adobe after buying Macromedia - > >are going to go after website CMS - > >If by chance this is already known -I have been in the cave the past > >few months coding with hotpockets and mountain dews- > >Till next time -Wishing you all good health-. > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "railfrog-dev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/railfrog-dev > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
