On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 21:34 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
I completely disagree on where this thread is going. I think of SVG like x86 byte code, it sucks in many ways, but by sticking with it we get lots of gains. For one, we have an entire committee who deals with compatibility issues for us :)
Does it deal with the compatibility issues of our users creative needs and a slowly evolving format? ;)
WRT the radial gradients I don't understand why the same techniques that Bulia came up with for the gradient meshes can't be used. I believe the attached file is roughly a radial gradient from black to white in the middle of a rectangle. And there's no reason we can't detect the meta data and render it in our own implementation in a faster way, but this should be vector in Firefox also.
I'm not saying I'm committed to the bitmap solution. Nor do I believe anyone else did. It was one (of many possible) workarounds available, and would be one that would be more performance friendly to other renderers.
Cheers, Josh