On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:50:47 -0500 MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> uttered:
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:53, Alan Horkan wrote:
Sounds like you should look at SMIL!
SMIL is certainly the right tool in the long run.
SVG includes a subset of SMIL for animation purposes; most of the discussion about animation has been about implementing that portion of the specification.
Also I'm not sure if they are more than just defacto standards but there is already SVGZ (Gzip Compressed SVG) and the openoffice file formats use Zip compressed XML so I'd be extremely surprised if there wasn't some packaged and Compressed version of SMIL.
(for what it's worth zip = jar)
We should probably look at how much we can/want to interoperate with OpenOffice too.
If Inkscape does as previously discussed move to using libgsf working from a collection of archived xml files shouldn't be too difficult.
*nods*
Inkview can now accept .jar/.sxw files on the command line, if an archived file is an SVG, it supplies it for viewing. As this is just a hack now, I'll abstract the IO layer using libgsf. This layer can then be used by modules later on for transparent loading/saving/archive listing in modules for example.
Also, I've put up a wishlist/idea page for inkview here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InkviewWishlist
Johan