Re: [K3d-development] Wiki issue - ".svg" is not a recommended image file format.

[Daniel S. M. <dsm...@gm...>]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:19:08 -0600, Timothy M. Shead <ts...@k-...>  
wrote:

> Daniel S. Matthews wrote:
>> SVG will display in Mozilla and it is and official and open standard,  
>> why  can't we use it in the wiki?
>> :-(
>> There are a *lot* of ideas that I could document using SVG, often the   
>> written word is ambiguous such that you need to write reams of guff to   
>> ensure that people understand exactly what you mean, but I picture is   
>> worth a thousand words, so long as you have not compressed it so much  
>> that  it looses important detail. i.e. SVG is better then JPG or PNG in  
>> many  cases. SVG also is machine readable, it is not a "dead"  
>> rendering, it can  contain readable text that can be searched, when the  
>> wiki code advances  that far. ;-)
>
> I don't have a problem with SVG files, I've updated the Wiki to allow  
> them.  Having said that, I wouldn't embed a lot of text in an SVG image,  
> since it can be searched today, if you put it in the page.
>

Yay! I'll keep the text to relevant labels and similar notation.
Another benifit of SVG is that other people can fix errors or update the  
documents in Inkscape.

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