Hi Richard, This is most cool and shows excellent potential.
Unfortunately, though, it does not render correctly in Konqueror. So I can't see it with my normal browser. Was the SVG built with ASV/Batik in mind? Generally, these days, if I can't view it with a native SVG implementation, I don't really have a chance to look at it since I'm exclusively on linux. Ronan On Friday 15 April 2005 18:28, Richard Pearman wrote: > I tried to send this before but it got rejected, I think because McAfee's > Spamkiller was leaving a load of stuff of the server and some email was > bouncing as a result so Yahoo decided it would add to my problems by > rejecting my mail. Are there better settings for Spamkiller (assuming that > it doesn't crash when I try to change them) or is this software a complete > bit of crap I should get rid of and join the class action suit? Anyway - > what I really mean to say: > > I really think that on-line comics are a natural use for SVG and a way to > bring the format to the attention of the masses. I've been doing "Dragon > Knights" (http://www.pixelpalaces.com/DK/) an SVG science fiction/superhero > comic for several months and the response has been > virtually non-existent! No complaints about dubious content, bad art or > bugs in the associated cgi scripts. So far only 3 people have listed it as > their favourites on http://www.onlinecomics.net (who have it listed under > my company name of PixelPalaces) and very few people have commented on it. > > Do those on this mailing list not like comics or think SVG should only be > used for serious things? I decided to go for the superhero genre because > the traditionally high standard of realist artwork would be good for > demonstrating SVG's capabilities. "Dragon Knights" does try to be > educational and make people think about controversial issues. Perhaps > that's my mistake and you like to be ignorant and hold what "they" tell you > are the "correct" opinions. Do you find the interactivity too difficult? > I'd like to know if my wife isn't the only person who has this problem > (because she thinks you get better performance from computers if you move > the mouse fast and shoots it straight over things with rollovers). Are you > intimidated by my use of transparency, gradients and filters to demonstrate > the more complicated features of SVG and make it look more like bitmaps? > Do you find the science confusing? I try to make it plausible and this is > one of few things I know of which seriously tries to speculate about how > nanotechnology will develop. Maybe you're frightened of the fluffy little > velocirapter? If your boss catches you reading this comic, you can claim > that you were researching technical aspects of SVG. > > I've recently added a promotion page with an SVG banner and a page > explaining why I think SVG is a good format for comics, how you might do > different styles of comic and use the various features of SVG. > > Are there any other sites with artistic uses of SVG? I read on the > Inkscape site that "Backed Babies" (if I remember correctly) is done in > Inkscape but there didn't seem to be anything about that on the site and > all the comics seemed to be bitmaps. Is svgcomics still alive (last time > I looked it didn't seem to have been updated for about a > year, there were only a couple of comics which IMHO weren't very good and > they didn't respond to my email)? Are there any other SVG comics which I > didn't do? > > Thanks for your endurance. Now tell me what I could do better! > > Richard Pearman http://www.nucleus.com/~richardp/ > http://www.pixelpalaces.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 > > > -- I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. -- Woody Allen --> contact me: ronan at roasp dot 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 <*> 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/
