Perhaps a little bit naïve and not very well technically informed, but why not encourage browsers editors to support Inkscape SVG instead of plain SVG ?
Sad for plain SVG but if its evolution is too slow to follow users and developpers needs...
________________________________ De : john cliff <john.cliff@...400...> À : Thomas Worthington <thomas@...2129...> Cc : Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>; Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...1063....> Envoyé le : Samedi, 28 Mars 2009, 14h17mn 54s Objet : Re: [Inkscape-devel] more gradients
I'd be no less SVG compliant than Illustrator, which does exactly what I'm suggesting to get round this sort of issue. Its also what we do to blurs etc when we write them to PDF, so theres precedent in the codebase already...
Personally SVG is the means to the end, not the end in itself.
As for sending stuff to people not using inkscape, I'd generally recommend using pdf not svg for those cases anyway.
2009/3/28 Thomas Worthington <thomas@...2129...>:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:49:20 -0000, John Cliff <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
I know it's kinda evil but there's always the option to render a bitmap version to stay svg compliant...
We need to accept that there are a lot of users (most probably) for whom the svg is not the reason that their using inkscape, they just want a vector art program. For them the svg doesn't support it limitation is irrelevant.
Well, perhaps. If you ask users "do you need this application to be strictly SVG compliant" they'll probably say "SV what?". Ask them instead, "Do you want to be able to send your work to people who don't use Inkscape?" then I'd bet on a 90% "Yes, please" response.
Adding non-svg elements is a slippery and tempting slope but in the long run it will bite back.
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