Hi, There are other solutions for rich clients than ASV. For example, Bitflash makes one available. Given ASV's licensing terms which intend to prohibit embedding ASV within other peoples' software, you might look at the performance with other plugins.
Also, something to consider is that you are currently not making any use of hardware acceleration for SVG rendering, and this is going to change in the future. There was already a demo of hardware-accelerated SVGT for mobiles at SVG Open in Tokyo this year, and this first-to-market solution provided an approximately 10x frame rate improvement over current software solutions (to 30 frames per second) for SVG SMIL animation. One thing I have certainly noticed is that ASV is very, very slow and very, very fat for run-of-the-mill SVG applications. This is most likely because it implements the entire SVG spec, rather than a more limited one. A quick test I ran was the to run the vodafone spiderman SVGT animation on ASV3.01 and on the latest bitflash browser (the standalone win32 version), and the ASV3.01 version produced 1/2 or so the frame rate, at a high RAM cost (true, it was embedded in IE at the time...) while the bitflash solution had an imperceptible footprint. One might consider entirely bypassing IE and using a lightweight wrapper to ASV as a possible solution (Vectoreal has been experimenting in this area), but given Adobe's position on embedding ASV into applications, this is a commercially risky thing to do. I would say that you should not give up on animation with SVG, but you should spend some time looking for the best browser for the job, and work around the technical limitations forced on you. Also, if you are using ASV, take a look at the optimization hints that were provided at SVG Open 2003 and SVG Open 2002 regarding ASV3 performance and calculation mechanisms. You may be able to get improved performance off your plugin without huge sacrifices in style (obvious points that come to mind are no filters, no transparency settings...) Ronan RonanOger Partner, Vectoreal http://www.vectoreal.com Director, ROIT Systems http://www.roitsystems.com Serverside SVG http://www.roasp.com Ronan On Saturday 18 September 2004 16:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, this is as far as I can see the major obstacle for using SVG for rich > user interfaces. The Adobe SVG plugin seems to render the graphics > immensely slow. This is my first SVG application so I might have made many > mistakes, but still, the SVG rendering is extremely slow. Maybe SVG was > never meant for interactivity and animation? > > > From: "Jerome de la Goutte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2004/09/18 Sat AM 03:24:55 EDT > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [svg-developers] Re: SVG rich client interface demo > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if one went to Harvard). -- Edgar R. Fiedler --> contact me: ronan at roasp dot com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
