On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:34:33 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> Danne Lundqvist wrote:
> > I don't understand how people can dislike such a nice
> > thing as xml. However, I don't understand what xml would
> > do for Enlightenment either.
>
>
> This thread isn't making much sense to me either. XML and SVG (based on
> XML) are web technologies. E is an application rather than a web
> technology so naturally it wouldn't need it. Please elaborate if need be.
if we needed svg - i'd look at it, right. but we don't. it's pretty simple that
way :) i've heard sooooo many people come along with "use svg! use xml!" most of
them don't program in c at all (perl etc. doesn't count). even more of them have
little knowledge of the details of svg, the rendering ops (clip pathes, bezier
curves, transformed fills, and other complex rendering primitives etc.) and the
complexity of doing them, let alone the immense task of doing them right AND
doing them FAST and making them still look good.
not to mention also adding in overhead of parsing the xml... re-rendering all
the primitives to a bitmap for each size anyway (either on the fly.. or to
cached bitmaps... many ways)... and to date no one has had either the knowledge
of graphics to the extent to REALLY understand how it works and what to do AND
the willingness to actually HELP and do it.
personally i DO know most of the details involved. i've poked around at th svg
spec, looked at it in detail. i am not in the mood to spend the next 12 months
writing a good svg renderer, and the existing ones aren't perfect and bring
along a nice big set of requirements all of their own just for the luxury.
so unless someone has 1. the ability to program really well & efficiently, 2.
the ability to understand and program graphics code life nobodies business, and
3. knows about svg beyond "its a www3 spec for scalable vector gfx (ie can
actually know all the display operations needed) and 4. is prepared to actually
do it, it's not happening.
so if you want svg... i'd suggest being in a position to tackle it effectively
first.. then tackling it.
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