Hi all, I hope no one feels I am trying to poach members off this list by writing this post. I feel it's a constructive response top the silver light thread that may help some members of the list.
I have been a SVG evangelist for many years even to the point where it contributed to me losing my job. Over the years I have had to admit that SVG was not going to meet my goal of creating great looking user interfaces. Then I read about RIA's and I think I now have a path and it may even include SVG. I was reading the posts on Silverlight. From my knowledge Silverlight is one of many new Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that aim take the web to the next creative level. I my self use the RIA Flex/Flash/Apollo and I have also of Java FX as a contender in this space. Seems all the big boys are in on this. It appears to me that SVG offers only one part of the puzzle that makes up a RIA. It should not therefore be compared to the whole of a RIA but to a part of it, the part that deals with rendering vector images. W3C is started a Rich Web Client (RWC) activity that will include SVG. Here is the link. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Simply put - If you are trying to use SVG to create next generation UI's then you are not using the right tool. I believe many members like myself will come to this conclusion and partially or fully leave the SVG arena for a while at least until this W3C RWC initiative becomes a standard with SVG as a core technology. In saying that I personally will not be abandoning SVG altogether. It is possible to integrate inline SVG within Flex. Not sure if Silverlight can do this, if it can't I would encourage UI oriented members of the group to follow suit and see what's possible with SVG/Flex at least till W3C's RWC catches up. For those not interested in corporate software, you will be please to know that Flex is to become open source. If the SVG community gets behind the future development of Flex then we could extend this SVG RIA development environment whilst also contributing to the w3c efforts. I think many on the list are like me - a UI guy that thought SVG would take me to utopia. So to you I hope this post helps to put things in perspective. And maybe we could get of the backs of all the other SVG guys that clearly take offence to our ramblings. Kind regards, Linc ----- 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/
