On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Anthony Walter wrote:

Hi all. 

As a programmer I was wondering, have any of Inkscape developers had looked into OpenVG? 

Hi,

A few of us have looked into it now and then. When rejon and I first saw info on them (SIGGRAPH we were at a while back) it seemed to have very limited distribution. One factor is that we would want something that was easy for us to use on Windows and Mac OS and other platforms. It also seemed to be very focused on hand-held devices and mobile applications.

Perhaps a bit of it at the time also was that there was a vendor pushing their implementation of it, and it seemed more of their focus to make money rather than get a cross-platform API supported. Often single-vendor initiatives like that take a little time to take hold (or pass to the sidelines). So that was another reason for waiting a bit.

However, the main thing was that it seemed at the time that having an OpenVG backend for cairo and just have Inkscape use cairo seemed like it would give more benefit overall.