Re: [Rails-devel] tile rendering objects

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Brett Lentz wrote:

> I know.  I was meaning that because it's a web-based application, it
> would be a good candidate for using SVG-based tile graphics being that
> there are SVG viewer plugins for most browsers.
> 
> The server can deliver the SVG directly to the client without needing to
> render or store the image locally on the server first.

Since the Java client is going to be running there anyway, it isn't clear 
that using SVG for display in a browser would work very well.  It would 
certainly be difficult to manage the display with part of it being 
rendered in an applet and part in an SVG viewer plugin.

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