Re: [Dynapi-Chat] DHTML? SVG!

[John S. <joh...@se...>]

Acrobat Plug-in: available for Linux -yeah!
Flash Plug-in: available for Linux -yeah!
DHTML: available for Linux -yeah!
SVG Plug-in: not available for Linux -bummer... 

-john <><


On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 10:38, Scott Andrew LePera wrote:

    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?
    
    -- 
    scott andrew lepera
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