Hi folks, I've been trying, rather unsystematically, to explore various options for SVG editing/authoring.
See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/Authoring_tools_and_editors for a list of things known or suspected of being relevant to the task (both software packages and features relevant to the evaluation). The ideal tool is, of course, free, easy to learn and use, powerful, standards compliant, extensible, cross-platform etc. etc. Thus far I've determined that KompoZer (a lovely little package originating with Daniel Glazman and colleagues) does not yet support SVG I'm interested in confirmation or denial of my experiments that suggest that: [all statements below involve huge disclaimers] 1. Aptana Studio (associated with the Open Ajax Alliance) does not yet support SVG. I installed a recent version and it seems to refuse to recognize the file type or to display any graphics. I agree with Jake that Aptana Studio is well worth paying attention to. 2. Nvu (from which KompoZer is descended) also does not support SVG 3. PsPad (despite having a plugin that is ostensibly for SVG) does not support SVG 4. Safari/webkit Web Inspector is rather buggy for SVG in the Windows environment and seems not to support SVG editing and saving 5. Eclipse has a Batik related SVG viewer (Cameron what do you use?). Eclipse seems a bit like an elephant gun. 6. Firebug seems to be more of a debugging environment than an authoring environment. (For example I can't seem to create a new blank page in it). 7. WebDwarf seems not to have a direct coding mode in which you can directly modify source code. 8. oXygen is huge, and hence, rather overwhelming, but seems to have good SVG support. the last claim I understand to be false but I cannot prove it false: 9. HTML-Kit has no way to preview SVG files [all statements above involve huge disclaimers] I would be quite happy to be set straight about any of the above observations. In some cases I spent less than an hour fiddling with the package to see if I could get it to play futbol so I well may have missed something obvious to the enthusiasts. Can anyone comment first-hand on experiences with Dragonfly (I've played with it a bit but haven't figured it out well enough to be able to modify code yet) notepad++, textpad, Seamonkey or Safari/webkit web inspector for Mac? I'm likely to make pointers to any comments people leave on this subject, so smile for the camera! Again if there are other programs that belong on the list, I'd like to know about them as well. Am interested in gathering informed reviews of any or all of these. cheers, David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- 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/
