I'm still hoping someone will release a solid SVG renderer written in Flash or Flex. There are a few projects that are most of the way there, but it would be really neat to have a feature complete one for SVG Tiny which allowed you to reliably render SVG graphics in IE.
SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
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Re: SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
#22One context in which I've tested SVG is together with XUL, running on Firefox. The combination is brilliant for complex UI and makes you wish it was more widely supported.
Got a screenshot or something public? I think XUL is interesting and would love to do some app development with it, but I keep coming back to worse is better and HTML is good enough.
Re: SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
#23One context in which I've tested SVG is together with XUL, running on Firefox. The combination is brilliant for complex UI and makes you wish it was more widely supported.
Got a screenshot or something public? I think XUL is interesting and would love to do some app development with it, but I keep coming back to worse is better and HTML is good enough.
I've not got anything I made that I could point you at without a bit of work, although I was originally inspired to try the combination by an article [1] in German magazine c't. Source code for the example from the article is downloadable. [2] It's a simple calendar/timetable app, and they've built the calendar display in SVG, and the rest of the UI in XUL. It uses PHP & MySQL server side and should hopefully make some sense even if you don't know German.
[1] http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/2008/5/202_kiosk
[2] ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/listings/0805-202.zip
Re: SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
#24I tried using SVG many years ago - but had to give up due to its lack of adoption and support by browsers.
What finally killed it for me was Adobe announcing they were dropping development and support for their (aging) SVG viewer.
So I looked around - and turned to Silverlight, which is unusual for me as I normally avoid Microsoft technology on the philosphical principle that it will be closed, proprietary, idiosyncratic, designed for someone with a very strange view of reality and incredibly inconsistent from one version to the next. But - Silverlight is XML - no nasty binary objects in the nackground, - it implements .NET - which is close to a language standard and could easily become one - it looks like the sort of thing that wold not be too hard for other platforms to implement - and Microsoft might out their resources behind making it a wide-support platform - and did I mention that it's pure XML. How cool is that!
SVG is ok, but very awkward to use in applications, and it was designed in a world where the verb 'to gooogle' did not exist.