Is SVG good for interactive GUIs though? On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 4:12:37 PM UTC+1, Duane Johnson wrote: > > Welcome, Rupert! Elm started small and has been growing significantly in > the last year. In its initial phase, it focused a lot on the > graphical/canvas oriented possibilities. Many web developers gravitated > toward its innovative ideas and its javascript-community-friendly culture, > however, and Elm's creator has now spent a lot of time (along with many > others) making it better suited to a more general web application > framework. In other words, it isn't just canvas graphics any more, although > you can still do that. > > I think you may find a UML modeller would work well with SVG, and Elm also > supports that quite nicely. I think it's still missing a higher-level > library in this area (for instance, I find my SVG code peppered with a lot > of toString calls while converting numbers to SVG attributes) but because > it's implemented in the virtual-dom manner (similar to React) it's very > pleasant to make state changes. See > http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/svg/1.1.1/ > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 3:37 AM, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> New to Elm, hello all. I only heard about Elm because Manning send me >> emails about their MEAP books and the latest one was for 'Elm in Action'. >> >> I noticed that quite a few Elm examples are graphical, the asteroid game, >> or elm-flatris, sketch-n-sketch. Is there something about Elm that makes it >> suited to working with HTML canvas? >> >> I am writing an application that could conveniently be described as like >> a UML modeller. I would like to mix fairly simple graphical elements and >> text and particularly text input fields. Up until now I have been trying >> out Paper.js - which does not support text input fields. Do you think Elm >> might be useful for this type of application? >> >> Thanks for your input. >> >> Rupert >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
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