Greetings fellow Inkscapers,
This announcement is a couple of days late due to problems establishing our new project web site.... but as the say, better late than never.
Much hard work has gone into developing Inkscape, the world's best free vector drawing program. But times are a-changing. The world is being Googled. Applications must be web based. We, who firmly believe in the open SVG standard, must move on too. Thus it gives us great pleasure to announce that our future efforts will be towards creating InkscapeSVG, a web based vector drawing program written in... ta-daa... SVG itself!
Already a prototype exists including several basic shape tools and a swatches pallete. You can check out development at:
Make sure you check out the nifty text tool too!
Sincerely,
Your InkscapeSVG team.
inkscapesvg@...8... wrote:
Greetings fellow Inkscapers,
This announcement is a couple of days late due to problems establishing our new project web site.... but as the say, better late than never.
Much hard work has gone into developing Inkscape, the world's best free vector drawing program. But times are a-changing. The world is being Googled. Applications must be web based. We, who firmly believe in the open SVG standard, must move on too. Thus it gives us great pleasure to announce that our future efforts will be towards creating InkscapeSVG, a web based vector drawing program written in... ta-daa... SVG itself!
Already a prototype exists including several basic shape tools and a swatches pallete. You can check out development at:
Make sure you check out the nifty text tool too!
My initial reactions.
1) Wow, cool! 2) Goodluck. There is some pretty hefty math going on in places. Not the kind of things you want to do in javascript, but perhaps ajax calls to a backend could help. 3) Hmmm. I'm going to guess some people in the community would appreciate an effort to better distinguish this project from Inkscape. Using Inkscape as a name for a completely different, yet related, project can only confuse people.
Aaron Spike
Aaron Spike wrote:
inkscapesvg@...8... wrote:
Greetings fellow Inkscapers,
This announcement is a couple of days late due to problems establishing our new project web site.... but as the say, better late than never.
Much hard work has gone into developing Inkscape, the world's best free vector drawing program. But times are a-changing. The world is being Googled. Applications must be web based. We, who firmly believe in the open SVG standard, must move on too. Thus it gives us great pleasure to announce that our future efforts will be towards creating InkscapeSVG, a web based vector drawing program written in... ta-daa... SVG itself!
Already a prototype exists including several basic shape tools and a swatches pallete. You can check out development at:
Make sure you check out the nifty text tool too!
My initial reactions.
- Wow, cool!
- Goodluck. There is some pretty hefty math going on in places. Not the
kind of things you want to do in javascript, but perhaps ajax calls to a backend could help. 3) Hmmm. I'm going to guess some people in the community would appreciate an effort to better distinguish this project from Inkscape. Using Inkscape as a name for a completely different, yet related, project can only confuse people.
4) Wait, am I falling for another april fool's prank?
And then Josh told me to try the text tool. You get one day a year to dupe people, you missed your chance. ;-)
Aaron Spike
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:14:06PM -0500, Aaron and Sarah Spike wrote:
Aaron Spike wrote:
inkscapesvg@...8... wrote:
Greetings fellow Inkscapers,
This announcement is a couple of days late due to problems establishing our new project web site.... but as the say, better late than never.
Much hard work has gone into developing Inkscape, the world's best free vector drawing program. But times are a-changing. The world is being Googled. Applications must be web based. We, who firmly believe in the open SVG standard, must move on too. Thus it gives us great pleasure to announce that our future efforts will be towards creating InkscapeSVG, a web based vector drawing program written in... ta-daa... SVG itself!
Already a prototype exists including several basic shape tools and a swatches pallete. You can check out development at:
Make sure you check out the nifty text tool too!
My initial reactions.
- Wow, cool!
- Goodluck. There is some pretty hefty math going on in places. Not the
kind of things you want to do in javascript, but perhaps ajax calls to a backend could help. 3) Hmmm. I'm going to guess some people in the community would appreciate an effort to better distinguish this project from Inkscape. Using Inkscape as a name for a completely different, yet related, project can only confuse people.
- Wait, am I falling for another april fool's prank?
And then Josh told me to try the text tool. You get one day a year to dupe people, you missed your chance. ;-)
Haha, well nice work in any case! Looks great. :-)
Bryce
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for your comments. It is actually pretty cool what you can do with SVG. The program was a little experiment in learning how to use javascript inside SVG. As you saw, I got a little carried away with it. I do think one could make an interesting "native" drawing program, perhaps on the level of MacDraw with the addition of SVG filters (when browsers have better support). But you could never compete with Inkscape. Javascript is just too slow and ugly. Opera pretty much chokes on the little code. I wrote.
And you are right, it was late for an April Fool's prank... My only defense is that it took 5 days for Free to get the website active and I wasn't going to wait another whole year. BTW, you weren't the only one who fell it.
There isn't a lot I could find on the web on using javascript with SVG other than a Tetris game(!). So while the code is somewhere between ugly and awful I'll leave it in place in case anybody wants to have a look at it.
inkscapesvg@...8... wrote:
There isn't a lot I could find on the web on using javascript with SVGother than a Tetris game(!). So while the code is somewhere between ugly and awful I'll leave it in place in case anybody wants to have a look at it.
Do you know this? http://www.treebuilder.de/default.asp?file=358730.xml
Quoting Nicu Buculei <nicu@...398...>:
Do you know this? http://www.treebuilder.de/default.asp?file=358730.xml
No, would have saved me a bunch of time. Thanks!
Thanks for your comments. It is actually pretty cool what you can do withSVG. The program was a little experiment in learning how to use javascript inside SVG. As you saw, I got a little carried away with it. I do think one could make an interesting "native" drawing program, perhaps on the level of MacDraw with the addition of SVG filters (when browsers have better support). But you could never compete with Inkscape. Javascript is just too slow and ugly. Opera pretty much chokes on the little code. I wrote.
Have you seen:
http://pilat.free.fr/english/svgdraw/index.htm
I think that is mostly what you're talking about. I find it pretty impressive overall.
--Ted
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