I'm in the very early stages of developing an interactive graphical web app, and I'm playing around with SVG as a possible platform. I've no previous experience with SVG - hell, I'd never heard of it until a couple of weeks ago - though I have done a little JavaScript.
The app will be pretty simple - a glass-tile mosaic designer / editor to run on a web page, to allow the user to design a mosaic from a palette, send us the design for manufacture, and (on the web-site but outside SVG) pay for it. The app would run pretty seemlessly right in the browser, as far as I can see - great for keeping the customer satisfied. But there are a few niggles I'd like to figure out before I commit: Saving and transmitting a file. I may be talking about big files here - anything up to a few hundred thousand tiles / elements. I'm working in IE6 with Adobe SVG, and the only method I can discover of saving a file after an editing session, so that changes are preserved, is the cumbersome "Copy_SVG" command followed by a paste to a Windows document (big Notepad-choking files, remember). I've roughed out a VBA macro in Word which takes care of it, but it's still not anything I'd care to put in front of a non-technical customer. There also seems to be a related difficulty in referencing external files (I'd like to have a user-selectable range of palettes, stored outside the main application, so I could maintain them as needed, with different ranges and brands of tiles). The "<use xlink:href=" constuct is apparently not implemented for external references. I'm stuck. I'd also like there to be some way for a customer to input a design from a sketch or photo, maybe from a photo-mosaic application, something like that, but I can't seem to find a way to implement this. More generally, there seems to be a slight odour of decay about the SVG world. Traffic on forums is down from 2005 levels. There are buggy bits and non-implemented bits that don't seem to be getting much attention. There aren't that many textbooks on SVG being published. Adobe is shutting up its SVG shop. Am I buying a Betamax here? ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
