On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:31 AM jelle via Inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

Hello Bryce,

If much of the handling of objects would be done through a command line, I
can imagine using the browsers rendering engine to create the end result.
Rendering SVG is something most browsers are capable of, up to certain
limits (filters a not Edge's strong point I believe). Using SNAP or other
javascript libraries building a GUI would be fairly straightforward. But
with the end result being displayed in browsers I see little use for Cairo.

Cheers,

Jelle

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:22:09 +0200, Bryce Harrington
<bryce@...961...> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:40:59PM +0200, jelle via Inkscape-devel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A lot of exiting things going on here. Separating the GUI from the
>> functionality of Inkscape and allowing to use it as a command line tool
>> sounds really cool.
>>
>> Now the question that arises to me is whether that means Inkscape could
>> be
>> used as a service and output could get rendered to a client browser?
>> That
>> would allow for a wide variety of GUI's to be developed that could
>> cater to
>> specific uses. I could envision a touch version and probably a VR
>> interface
>> would be more of an option as well.
>
> I imagine there's a variety of different kinds of solutions that could
> be built atop a generalized backend API. Using it to support web-based
> art seems like an interesting area of exploration. As this is all still
> much in the "hand-wavey" stage, it's hard to predict exactly what will
> and won't be possible, but the overall architectural vision would seek
> to suit a wide variety of "headless" uses.
>
> A lot of work will need to be done before we can say for sure what will
> and what won't be feasible to do, and we'll need to be cautious to not
> get over-ambitious in our planning - better to do just a few new things
> really well, than a whole bunch of different things poorly. But, we're
> all excited by the possibilities and hope others will also be
> enthusiastic in joining us to make it into a reality.
>
>> Obviously the fast rendering with Cairo would be lost that way, but
>> for limited use cases (for instance without filters) that should be
>> fast enough I think.
>
> Could you elaborate? Why would that be lost necessarily?
>
> Bryce

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