Is it me, or is there nothing there but a static page with no further links...? see screendump:
____________________________ Barend K�bben International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands) ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 _____________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Hemsher Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:22 To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] tone on this list, Re: A Secret SVG underground Society? Andreas, Would you please invest about 10 seconds and take a look at the agony & ecstasy I experience with SVG: http://www.mobiusPortal.com Who's Paul? I think I'd like to get to know him:) Francis "Andreas Neumann" wrote: > Francis, Paul and all the other individuals who like to spread an > offensive tone in this list. Your mails aren't really constructive > contributions. > > I would friendly like to ask you to stop bothering other people with > your individual opinions and offending other peoples by bashing > their work. > > If your interest is, that SVG is only a pure static vector graphics > format than why are you still on this list. There are numerous > applications out there, including two major web browsers (Opera and > Mozilla) that exactly do what you want. No need to stay on this > list. > > For the others that want more (like me and many other on this list) > - we would like to go one towards animation, interactivity and > application development - and we believe that SVG, in conjunction > with other web standards can be a viable and useful base technology > for web application development - no, it's not the solution for > everything, but it is a good base technology for people that don't > want to use and or build yet another plugin, activex-control, or > java-applet for yet another proprietary technology and file formats. > And last not least: maybe people like building applications with > lightweight tools and are happy with ECMAScript, DOM and SVG. Those > people may not have the time and skills to do full-blown Java > or .net applications. And maybe other people do care about platform > and browser independency - no, XAML is not yet platform independent > and therefore (not yet?) an alternative. > > So, if people feel comfortable designing SVG GUI, why offending > them? Maybe its not as comfortable already, as we'd like it to be - > but we are getting there. > > And why bashing W3C if they are working on a specification with > features the community out there asked them for? If the community > did not ask them for interactivity, animation and network support - > do you think the W3C would work on it? > > Andreas ----- 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- 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/
