On Tuesday 02 November 2004 16.21, Alexander Adam wrote: > >Ronan, > >> I am confused why this is necessary. Is this functionality not >basic to >> all scripting languages? Is the desire to provide a common API so >the >> naming convention is scripting-language independant? > >Well, a few builtin apis are making sense due the fact that viewers >may take advantage of the system. For example in Windows, the Timer >API could be implemented on top of the Windows API timer that is >fast and perfomant enough to have real time in SVG whereas a js >library would first require to install/use it instead of simply >accessing a builtin api and would be slower as well. Well that's >just our experience when building a SVG Viewer. >
Good point about performance. But dont you think that asking each browser implementer to do this is a bit of overkill? Granted, it takes the technical requirements out of the developers and puts them in the hands of the infrastructure (viewer) people. But man, at what cost?? This seems to me to only be adding YetAnotherHurdleToSVG1.2. About performance, i have been hearing that scripting performance is mostly affected by the rendering side on asv, and not by the script complexity. Ronan >Alexander Adam >EvolGrafiX - http://www.evolgrafix.com > > > > > > >----- >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 > > > > > > > > > > -- Ronan Oger http://www.roasp.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/
