Daniel Hulme ha scritto:
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.
Well, this is reasonable but what i meant with the "future svg upgrade" is so undefined now, i'm not deeply informed about various browsers development, i suppose that microsoft is not following this, for example. I feel as this is our desire much more than a concrete opportunity now, but i'm going to deepen my knowledge about browser's plans to support svg.
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.
Yes this is the main point.
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.
I'm wondering this; what if we allow svg upload and provide a download link in the full node view? I mean, i can't see more to do right now with svg, this accomplishes the main needs of us, inkscape users. I'll do in a while, i'm sorry for those who already posted images, they will have to edit their content to upload the svg file. But i'm the first who must do this... I tell you when i've done. Da.