News articles out today note something that might help boost Inkscape... if we can leverage it.
:-)
Microsoft IE9 Platform Pops with Speed, Standards http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361407,00.asp = = = ... New support for SVG-scalable vector graphics Sure, you can offer a PDF download for complex content like floor plans and org charts, but why not make these decipherable right inside the Web page? SVG allows just that. SVG is a W3C standard for animated, interactive graphics based on paths rather than bitmaps. No matter how much you zoom in on an SVG image, edges remain razor sharp—unlike bitmapped image formats like JPEG, which show degradation as you enlarge them. This holds true for text, too; that's key for the org-chart example mentioned above.
In fact, John Hrvatin, senior program manager lead for Internet Explorer, told journalists that IE9 is the first browser that natively supports SVG inline with HTML—previously XHTML was required. SVG is the descendant of VML, which came out of the Visio drawing tool. Other browsers use SVG for the popular map sites, while until version 9, IE has uses VML.
"SVG is a huge standard," said Visio veteran and now Internet Explorer partner program manager Ted Johnson. "We're not doing all of it in the first release, but we're doing a tremendous amount of it. When we ship, we're going to be covering all the way through what we consider 'static SVG.' Filter effects, animation, and fonts won't be included. A lot of these are still in flux. What's exciting about SVG is that you can easily see the markup in view source alongside its graphical result in the browser." = = =
And some "straight from the horse's mouth" at
HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware-accelerated-first...
yeah, but not for another 9 years (or however long) when M$ phases out support for IE8 :P Somehow, people on certain platforms still can't figure out how to update their ancient browsers.
JF
On 03/16/2010 01:45 PM, Jon Cruz wrote:
News articles out today note something that might help boost Inkscape... if we can leverage it.
:-)
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:58 -0400, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
yeah, but not for another 9 years (or however long) when M$ phases out support for IE8 :P Somehow, people on certain platforms still can't figure out how to update their ancient browsers.
Does anyone with Vista or 7 want to report on the preview?
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
Cheers, Josh
On Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:24:50 PM, Joshua wrote:
JAA> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:58 -0400, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
yeah, but not for another 9 years (or however long) when M$ phases out support for IE8 :P Somehow, people on certain platforms still can't figure out how to update their ancient browsers.
JAA> Does anyone with Vista or 7 want to report on the preview?
JAA> http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
I installed it on Win7. Then I ran it through the SVG 1.1SE test suite.
Paths and shapes are there, with solid fill and stroke but no markers yet. No gradients yet.
Transforms seem to work. Images work, but gamma in PNG is busted at the moment.
Text elements work but attributes like dx dy rotate don't. tspan elements don't render at all yet (so all text out of Inkscape is not rendered since Inkscape puts everything inside tspan). International text seems ok (for horizontal text; no vertical support yet); Arabic and Hebrew seem OK.
Event flow for scripting is not there yet, but some scripting works (attribute modification, adding and deleting elements).
No filters, no SMIL animation, no SVG fonts.
Compositing is GPU hardware accelerated, so hundreds of semi-transparent shapes all being animated (via script) and overlapping works at good speed.
Colour management of tagged images is not enabled yet.
All in all a good first beta, looking forward to the next one.
Extensive tests are now available on CodeDread.com [1]. From my read of the article on Ars Technica [2] they are planning to have full SVG 1.1 (1.2?) support in final release of IE9, with exception for SVG fonts, fillters and animations.
[1] http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php (click the table for details) [2] http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/platform-preview-gives-web-dev...
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