[svg-developers] Re: A gps simulator for use in svg mapping

2005-04-14 Thread Dimitrios Zachariadis
Ronan Thank you for the iformation. I realize that the security issue is here to stay. So I'll play the game as it is today. Providing a small http server might not be much of a problem as I thought it to be. In fact, I just finished an implementating one in gpsfeed+. I'll post a separate

[svg-developers] Re: A gps simulator for use in svg mapping

2005-04-13 Thread Andreas Neumann
Jérôme, the server side script is the way I am doing it now, but it adds load and also latency to the system, and this is causing inaccuracies when mobile. System is running a number of other gps applications at the same time and I need svg for mapping. So, if I get it right,

Re: [svg-developers] Re: A gps simulator for use in svg mapping

2005-04-13 Thread Ronan Oger
Dimitrios, SVG 1.2, which is currently being prepared by the w3c, allows for direct socket connections. However, the issue of security and whether or not to allow socket connections to a different server than the one which served the oriignal svg content has not been worked out yet. Good

[svg-developers] Re: A gps simulator for use in svg mapping

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Dimitrios, thanks for providing the link to your application. It might be useful for one of my future projects. As to your question: there might be several options. It depends on your environment. Some SVG viewers support sockets, but then you might run into firewall problems. One