Hi Jim, SVG is an excellent choice for technical applications. The code generated by the native editors you mention is valid but obviously each uses its own algorithms for generating the code, which may differ considerably from hand coding, given that artificial intelligence is still embryonic at this stage, although nothing prevents you from giving Illustrator a hand with building the structure that suits your needs. The most common approach is to have the native editors to do part of the job, in assisting for path drawing for example, and assemble the work manually to ensure optimization, adding scripting, etc. It is also standard practice to build the elements using the DOM interfaces, which makes production and maintenance very easy.
Sketsa will probably be very robust given the necessary amount of time. I believe the development of Webdraw has been stopped quite a while ago. Illustrator is strong for what it can do, not forgetting that all those applications, including Inkscape etc. specialize in art production. They cannot produce applications and they never claimed that. In my opinion there aren't yet any tools of the model driven technologies type in any vector solution capable of generating credible code for complex applications. > be the best choice... Are there any other vector types that are > overcoming these issues? As this is probably the scope of your post, the answer is yes of course, Flash. You can try at least and see if it can meet your expectations. May I ask you if that development was for Milacron's extruders technical manuals and if you developed that application yourself? Aren't you the president of Milacron? Domenico Strazzullo --- In [email protected], "jabbiati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I developed an SVG application for work a few years ago that added a > slew of interactive options (drop down menus, links, auto- > highlighting of graphic elements, blinking, etc.) to schematics and > diagrams in our technical manuals. Over the past few years I've seen > support for SVGs dwindle, and am finding the SVG export capability of > certain graphic tools (Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, etc.) is also > diminishing. It gets even worse when you consider that after I've > added all the interactivity code to these drawings, I have few > options to maintain them, since I need a native editor to do so > (Sketsa, WebDraw?). When you reopen an SVG in Adobe or other tools, > they resave it without the code I added. Additionally, the raw SVG > code generated by the different tools is completely different, making > consistency difficult. > > It appears to me that using SVGs for technical applications might not > be the best choice... Are there any other vector types that are > overcoming these issues? Are there any robust SVG tools out there > that can handle initial creation AND native editing well? > > Inquiring minds want to know...and I'd really appreciate any advice! > > Thanks, > > Jim Abbiati > ----- 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/
