"SVG: For UI developers too lazy to roll their own hit-testing" I recently became aware of another project that has written their entire view layer in Canvas: http://badassjs.com/post/18610722419/first-look-blossom-a-sproutcore-spinoff-using-only The other famous example was, of course, Thunderhead: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Thunderhead/TheBook Shumway is probably yet another example: http://badassjs.com/post/25369867558/shumway-mozillas-flash-vm-and-runtime-in-javascript
Seems like quite a lot of effort, and I wonder if the performance gains are proportional. Jake On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Cameron Laird <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:52:59AM -0400, David Dailey wrote: > . > . > > . > > others. A lot of developers are still using <canvas> instead of SVG in > > contexts where SVG would be more appropriate (like when a UI is needed). > > > > By way of half-hearted speculation, I think that misplaced zeal has a > lot to > > do with the fact that a) they are programmers and declarative approaches > > don't provide quite the same level of job-security and b) Apple's halo > (and > > to some extent Google's as well) has made <canvas> appeal to many of the > > hormone-driven youngsters who are slurping their Red Bull and > programming at > > 02:30 am. Web GL provides, perhaps, some of the same testosterone rush. > We > > older folks have gotten lazier and prefer fewer keystrokes. Maybe it is > fear > > of arthritis. > . > . > . > "SVG: Visualization for Oldsters"? > > > [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/
