On Tue, 24 May 2005 12:50:34 -0000 "andrewgirow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Its OK that you stepped in. Cause now I understand that what I said > was not clear ;). Glad to help. > What I think is wrong with coming SVG1.2? > It reminds me something built by the slogan: Lets take everything > good around put it together and see what happend next". <grin type="big, evil">Bad question to ask. Several of us program in Perl.</grin> > 1) Video and audion - its SMIL field with several years of pretty > good performance and implemetations. > > 2) text flow, styles - its XHTML field. No need to say that there is > no lack of browsers. > > 3) Forms and UI - its XForms field. > > Now the question is, why an SVG 1.2 should repeat all these efforts > instead of to use them? I think of this as a multi-phase project. In many of the projects I've worked on, we end up accumulating stuff to solve our problem. A few iterations later, we refactor and clean things up. When SVG first started, my memory is that there was less experience with the use of multiple XML namespaces in a single document. SVG incorporated some SMIL elements to provide some functionality. Meanwhile, the development community learned to enhance their applications with special purpose XML in a non-SVG namespace. This is valuable experience that helps guide the use of these kinds of technologies. My guess is that this kind of "real world" experience was needed to help develop a specification like CDF. We've seen in several programming languages what happens when a standard is set without prior art. You end up with either strange little nooks and crannies in the language that have to be ironed out for years or an ongoing series of deprecated features. At the moment, all of these technologies are young. There will be growing pains. This is also the time when they are interesting. A decade from now, all of these issues will be worked out and any programmer will be able to work with them. I'll get off my soapbox, now.<shrug/> G. Wade -- One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the land of Redmond, where the Windows lie. ----- 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/
