Hi Patrick, Could you describe how you at Microsoft evaluate the information you capture from this group? Wombat...
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Doug Schepers
d_a_schepers
May 2, 2010 5:50 pm
Hey, SVG heroes- At my recent presentation on SVG at the WWW 2010 conference, I was approached by someone from the Firebug team. Firebug is a kick-ass ...
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ddailey
ddailey@...
May 2, 2010 8:20 pm
On thing that comes to mind would be a GUI editor like SVG-Edit available in a little window so that one can quick sketch up a bezier curve or even a polygon,...
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Max Dunn
maxdunnspi
May 2, 2010 8:22 pm
... Cool, welcome to the group! I see you joined this one April 16, 2010. Yet I was already refreshed by seeing your numerous on-target posts to www-svg@......
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jeremy_forson
May 3, 2010 1:22 am
Hi folks, I'm a designer/Flash developer, and since I've come to believe that Flash is soon to be outright abandoned, I've decided to start learning about what...
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Mark T
markstestacc...
May 3, 2010 4:02 am
Hi jeremyforson, You are probably entering at the right time. IE 9 with SVG hardware acceleration is a clue. A lot of the end-points you will find by googling...
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Terry Riegel
twrriegel
May 3, 2010 10:45 am
The future looks promising for svg. Until it stabalizes you might want to check out the excellent cross browser library Raphael. http://raphaeljs.com Terry On...
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John Delacour
valchiusella
May 3, 2010 11:34 am
... I hope so! At the moment I use SVG only for still drawings, ie. without animation. I create the SVG using a home-made Perl module. To create movies I...
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jeremy_forson
May 3, 2010 12:03 pm
Thanks MarkT! I was wondering about the lack of information. I've found a lot of documents that were written in like 2001, or haven't been updated since 2004,...
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domenico_strazzullo
domenico_str...
May 3, 2010 6:33 pm
It is possible to open a local file using XMLHttpRequest. status returns 0 (not http): if (this.readyState == 4) { if (this.status == 200) { ...
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domenico_strazzullo
domenico_str...
May 3, 2010 6:59 pm
... Bloody hell! I hope "SMIL everywhere" will take shorter....
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ddailey
ddailey@...
May 3, 2010 7:47 pm
Take a look at http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html It isn't "finished"; yet, and is a work in progress, The SVG Interest Group has been...
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jeremy_forson
May 4, 2010 11:41 am
Thanks for the tip! Raphael looks really promising. I especially like the easing for animations....
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jeremy_forson
May 4, 2010 11:44 am
Interesting. It's a little hard for me to imagine how you're using SVG to eventually incorporate in QT movies, but it's good to know it can be used in diverse...
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patrickdengler
May 4, 2010 2:30 pm
We were the first to deliver SMIL for HTML in 1996 (?) called HTML + TIME. It's usage was near 0. We want to watch SMIL usage; using fakeSMIL (though doesn't...
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patrickdengler
May 4, 2010 2:30 pm
Doug (who I don't know if is a member of this group), Ed (who I am pretty sure is a member) and I among others work a LOT to make sure that the set of features...
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patrickdengler
May 4, 2010 2:31 pm
Can folks piont me to real world, on the web, use cases for SMIL. That will help a bunch....
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patrickdengler
May 4, 2010 2:31 pm
We promised 8 weeks and we will try not to disappoint. Though I will have a follow on post for this group soon after....
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patrickdengler
May 4, 2010 2:32 pm
I get information from as many sources I can. I look at links that folks send out to see what they are doing with SVG; I send private messages to folks about...
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bruce
brucerindahl
May 4, 2010 3:47 pm
Patrick One of the best tutorials to show how SMIL animation can be used in place of Flash is at: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/01/23/svg/index.html This is...
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jeff_schiller
May 4, 2010 4:05 pm
... Hi Patrick, I don't know how "real world" this is, but I've had a menu I use on my site using SVG and SMIL: http://www.codedread.com/menu.svg where I...
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Sayed Arian Kooshesh
mekow
May 4, 2010 4:20 pm
anyone looking for a computer science guy with svg experience? ... -- Extreme Knowledge is not something for which he programs a computer but for which his...
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rrboyet
May 4, 2010 5:27 pm
... Possible use case, low underpass heights, overhead structures on interstates etc. As a casual map user I have no idea how the map people handle that. ...
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Bjoern Hoehrmann
hoermi
May 4, 2010 5:45 pm
... HTML+TIME (1.0) was introduced with Internet Explorer 5 in early 1999, HTML+TIME (2.0) was introduced with Internet Explorer 5.5 in mid-2000. My...
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Peter Thompson
plthompson2004
May 4, 2010 6:09 pm
Another SVG SMIL example: http://www.fastsvg.com/uml/uml.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Bjoern Hoehrmann
hoermi
May 4, 2010 6:09 pm
... You would have to be more specific for us to come up with useful replies as generally the use cases are not very different from those for similar features...
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Jon Ferraiolo
jon_ferraiolo
May 4, 2010 6:27 pm
Bjoern, Good set of examples! Here is one I liked: * http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Steam_engine_slide-valve_cylinder_animation.svg What I...
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Jon Ferraiolo
jon_ferraiolo
May 4, 2010 6:47 pm
One more thing. The example link works in Chrome and Safari (and probably iPhone). Jon From: Jon Ferraiolo/Menlo Park/IBM@IBMUS To:...
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Francis Hemsher
fhemsher
May 4, 2010 9:55 pm
Hi Patrick, I guess, I'll balance the comments on canned animations(SMIL). With hardware acceleration, and compiled Javascript for IE9, scripted animation can...
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ddailey
ddailey@...
May 4, 2010 10:35 pm
I have developed an odd sense of anxiety when it comes to discussing "use cases" with people in the standards community. In the early days of HTML5 discussions...
