On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 11:54 +0200, Donn Ingle wrote:
Thanks for the level-headed email Martin.
What do you think about the two articles (Tav's and Amelia's)? http://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg http://tavmjong.free.fr/svg2_status.html
Is there something to the notion that SVG2+ may never happen, or be so tenuous that it takes years?
This is really something that Tav can delve into far more than I can.
From other standards issues like xhtml, the perspective is that
software code beats yak yak, so pushing features forwards is a possible strategy to improve svg for svg2.1 or whatever comes next.
I don't have evidence, but the shape of graphic tools in Linux-land (my O/S pov) is primitive. I have to ask why we can't do the few essential things (like abstract-out symbols/clones and palettes - the basic efficiency stuff) after so many years?
That's an investment problem, not a standards problem. Most of the issues we have (the big ones anyway) are not sitting here waiting for svg, they're waiting for developers with time/money to work on them.
Take CMYK, svg has supported cmyk for a long time (in that you can specify colours as cmyk data) but Inkscape's capacity to load, save and then export those colours to pdf has been slow to realise.
I hope this adds something, but I'm not an expert really.
Best Regards, Martin Owens