Google's SVG Library

[Josiah Kiehl]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/1246248/Google-Brings-SVG-Support-To-IE?from=rss

Thoughts?

Josiah Kiehl

[charles thomas]

The good looking demo's when display in ie (appear) to use Flash, so it will be interesting to get a look at this library when it's more available.   Correct me if i'm wrong I spent 5 minutes playing with the demo's only... --- On Sat, 8/22/09, Josiah Kiehl <jos...@josiahkiehl.com> wrote: From: Josiah Kiehl <jos...@josiahkiehl.com> Subject: Google's SVG Library To: raph...@googlegroups.com Received: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 9:28 AM http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/1246248/Google-Brings-SVG-Support-To-IE?from=rss Thoughts? Josiah Kiehl Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free!

[William Edney]

A nice solution as long as you're willing to run Flash to do the actual rendering.

Haven't read enough yet to know how that affects the scripting of interactive capabilities of the individual rendered elements. The nice thing about Dmitry's approach is that you can install event handlers right on the individual parts of the rendered drawing. Google may have found a way to do this in Flash, but I'm skeptical. Mapping Flash events and hit testing of individual Flash elements back into the JS DOM world such that it all looks like the W3C SVG DOM would not be impossible, but it would be a lot of work.

Cheers,

- Bill

[William Edney]

Upon doing some further reading, it appears that the Google folks have indeed done much of the work required to do proper event handling, even when running the Flash plugin.

http://codinginparadise.org/projects/svgweb/docs/UserManual.html

All in all, an impressive achievement. You still have to be willing to run Flash, though, and in many of the corporate environments I deal with, they're not willing to do that.

In fact, on Safari/Mac, every crash I've encountered in the past year has been in the Flash plugin - although you wouldn't be using the Flash renderer in a Safari/Mac environment in this case.

[antimatter15]

I've been looking at the project for several months (it's google code
project started last year). I've recently tried porting a SVG
application (svg-edit) over to svgweb, and most of it converted really
easily, though events need a bit of work and .getBBox() doesn't work.