On Jun 25, 2005, at 3:55 PM, bulia byak wrote:
On 6/25/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
Cleaner markup is simply easier to work with in other tools, and given my limited programming skills and the dearth of tools out there my primary tools is a text editor.
Clean markup is nice, but it's far from being a top priority with Inkscape. Other things are usually more important.
Well...
First I'd like to be on the record as of the opinion that the ideals Alan is indicating here are probably ones that are worth it. Especially given my long history with orphan platforms and hopping boxes, I'm well up on the benefits of standards and portability.
On the other hand, Bulia is good with pointing out the pragmatics of where we are, and the most important goal of getting the job done.
My professional instincts tell me that the more we can manage both of those, especially in this area, the better things will be. I still have to delve more into this specific issue, but I think that eventually simplifying things with the proper insight can make both very doable.
And though I don't think we can refactor things enough to hit both in the immediate term, I do think it's important in the long run. I think that perhaps a lot of the 'cleanliness' aspect will actually be part of making things work for different target profiles and platforms (SVG Basic, SVG Tiny, different target display types, etc). So... it's covered in the roadmap somewhat, and probably can get some decent compromises in place once it's going. Guess that means, 'be patient, we would like to get that'. :-) Hmm.... Of course, that's more me personally, but I'm fairly confident that eventually we can have things much better in that regard.