At 07:36 AM 12/16/2005, Andrew Watt wrote: > >What does SVG need? Others are better placed than I currently am to make >specific suggestions. I think one of the crucial things is a >design/development >tool that makes creating SVG easier for designers/programmers. >That's where I >see Microsoft as having a particularly strong tool in Sparkle - it gives a >design environment that allows designing and programming to work >synergistically. To the best of my knowledge SVG hasn't had such a >tool. In my opinion it >needs one. 99% (at a guess) of the people who could develop/design with SVG >won't have the time to hand code.
Funny, last night I started writing something similar on this subject (going so far to requote a part of Domenico Strazzullo's wonderful ramble about "why SVG?" (Dec. 8th ). Rereading what I wrote, I realize I was far too eloquent for my own good, so I will summarize: what SVG needs is a "killer app." Something that runs in the browser (so everybody can use it without any download), is very GUI, generates SVG with SMIL and or JavaScript as output, has good coding and markup support under the hood, and takes the concept of the user-interface and ease-of-use a bit further than the now 20-year old user-interfaces associated with the Adobe/Macromedia/Microsoft/etc product lines. It should allow drop in data-spigots (which can fuel individual objects), gradient and texture designers (including fractal generators), filter feedback networks, and should use mouse-event streams (perhaps with chording) to choreograph events (instead of story boards) , magnetic deformers (with multiple flavors of magnetism), web awareness, lexical and semantic parsing (with thesauri), concurrent multiple authorship, etc. That oughta ensure SVG's vitality and preserve human dignity at the same time. Maybe the UN would foot the bill? DD ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/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/
