On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:30:45PM +0100, davide|inkscapegallery wrote:
Same as before, we can start planning how to provide svg support in the future, i think that something about svg is going to happen even in the drupal development , so we start now thinking the best way to use svg in the web site but we work for a future upgrade about it. Is it reasonable?
It strikes me that whatever your future SVG migration strategy, it's going to be much easier if you already have the SVG source for all or most of your users' art.
In addition, not allowing upload of the SVG will discourage people from sending in GPL'ed works, or other works where the author wants to encourage his 'users' to create derivative works by giving them the work in an easily editable form.
Another, less important, benefit to accepting SVG files is that they already have all the metadata such as author and license terms in the file, so your users wouldn't need to enter it all again on the site.