On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:

I'm curious about this one because the writeup basically says this

will create things that aren't SVG. Is there a plan to make a new

file extension at some point? It would still be mostly SVG, just

augmented with extra stuff. The Inkscape-specific extension would be

like a warning -- "This is not plain vanilla svg and may not render

correctly as such". Kinda like how .ai files are mostly just regular

.ps files, but if it doesn't look right in your .ps viewer, you know

you should try it in Illustrator.

I believe this one is more along the lines of allowing one to do basic manipulation of bitmaps (probably embedded or linked) without requiring switching to a different app. So if your SVG linked in a few bitmap files, you could adjust them in place.