The example at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/eggcloning3.svg represents one of my first attempts (circa 2004) to create a non-trivial bit of dynamic SVG.
It worked as I hoped and designed in IE/ASV. Later as newfangled implementations of SVG came along like Opera and Firefox, I fixed the parts that prevented it from being standards compliant, and eventually, wearing all the patience I could muster, it began to work in other browsers.. Sort of. Basically the user interface is patterned after the modal or context sensitive interfaces pioneered in the pre-Apple GUI environment of the PLATO system (Apple got more than a few things wrong, btw, but then so did Xerox - I think they were in a hurry): clicking one place does one thing; somewhere else does something else. All drawing programs should be like this, I believe. Clicking and dragging is different than clicking. Anyhow, the colors of the eggs in IE/ASV (you really should keep ASV current on your machines somewhere since in 7.34 percent of cases it is the only bug-less browser implementation of SVG and remains the only way you can actually see things!) are rich in iron and show the influence of free-range chickens. The Opera eggs, the Firefox eggs, the WebKit eggs and the Microsoft eggs all look like the chickens were raised in cages with their beaks clipped, fed steroids and stimulants to increase egg-laying and never given a chance to stretch their legs. You know what? I think that is an ASV bug with the way the filter influences the chroma. Okay, so maybe ASV wasn't perfect! [I can adjust that, though, with a little bit of RNA, to make the eggs look farm-raised - the average consumer palette will never know.] However, notice the way the eggs slide over the gradients in ASV. Each egg slithers up and down the gradient. In Opera, the first egg seems to determine the movement of all the others (unless you kill the first egg, and then the others seem to gain a bit of personality). The slithering just isn't right! Is it me and ASV or is it Opera? Firefox and Safari are no use as they don't try to deform the darn eggs at all, and Chrome (true to its name) pretends each egg is the Starship Enterprise and floats them about like Federation starcruisers in the game "Empire" (also a Plato thing - I will have you know I was third-ranked in the world at that game in the late 1970's!). So the question does sort of matter - is the deformation we see in Opera or in ASV correct here? A simpler case may be seen at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/svgopen2008/bouncing3.svg Note how Opera seems to deform the purple ball before it gets to the gradient, almost the way Chrome does. (Safari is just goofy, and FF and IE don't even try to play the game). 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: [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/
