Re: [Dynapi-Chat] DHTML? SVG!

[Scott A. L. <sc...@sc...>]

Richard Bennett wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm helping Kevin with his SVgUI form replacement widgets, using
> custom-namespaces inside SVG files, and it has been setup as a SF project,
> although no files have been released yet.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/svgui/


Cool.  Will you drop the list a note when it's released?


> I don't think the plugin is a problem actually, PDF took off, even though it
> needs a plugin, and the SVG plugin is distributed with the PDF plugin, and
> with Real-player (amongst many other products).


I don't consider the Acrobat reader to be a "plug-in" in a true sense -- 
you need to download the reader to view PDF files, regardless of whether 
it's from a browser or your desktop.  But I agree that the seamless 
integration with other clients helped increase Acrobat's (and therefore 
  PDF's) popularity.

There's a lot to be said for zero-install.  The main reason why Flash is 
so widespread is because the plug-in is bundled with nearly every new 
browser.  I wonder how successful it would be today if that were not the 
case.


>>From this work I think SVG will not replace DHTML anytime soon, in fact, I
> think it will stimulate libraries like DynAPI, because it is a very powerful
> tool, as a drawing board, but lacks many things we take for granted in
> DHTML, and some elements are not up to scratch, performance-wise (SMIL
> animation for instance).


I think that's an interesting argument.  What exactly does SVG (the 
spec, not the Adobe implementation) lack that we take for granted in DHTML?

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