Yes, I agree, Francis. It is already being deployed in large enterprise projects, as I know from one of my former students now at IBM.
As Jon points out he's been experimenting with some uses of replicate-like ideas in D3 already. I also agree with him that it's not clear how much of it could be added into D3. For example the <replicateModifier> stuff such as at http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/feComposite8.svg and the replicatePath stuff (e.g. http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/pathRep2JS.svg ) require awareness of the SVG DOM, but D3 is clearly very powerful already and is teeming with new development. Learning how to use D3 is next on my list of projects, once the current list frees up a bit! Of course, <replicate> like <animate> is intended as a declarative approach, so adding replicate to D3 would not likely mean discontinuing development of it by itself. Having a solution that enables our IE brethren (and sistren) to actually see existing SMIL content would be quite a nice gesture. Cheers David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francis Hemsher Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] Re: <replicate> David Wrote: > a) The Working Group recently decided [3] not to adopt <replicate>, > unless it is accompanied by "concrete use cases and demonstration of > author/implementor interest." > Hi David, For the past few weeks I have been evaluating the d3 Javascript library that is used to generate SVG from data. I believe it will be substantially employed within svg enterprise projects. I would like to suggest that the replicate .js library file could make a nice addition to the d3 library. This would most assuredly demonstrate is usability. Regards, Francis [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: [email protected] [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/
