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SVG 1.1 Becomes W3C Proposed Recomendation

Posted by michael on from the step-2-XML-step-3-profit dept.

openbear writes "From the w3c web site... W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers."

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  1. Re:COULD IT BE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:dang! by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 0, Troll

    wassamatter? AOL community forums get boring?

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    "Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
  3. Yahoo plans to switch to Xforms too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just look at this nice writeup in the Yahoo Research and Development forum.

  4. Re:SVG vs. Flash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    There's another article about this on Yahoo, which points out two additional advantages:

    • SVG is accessible for the disabled, whereas Flash bars the blind from visiting your site
    • With SVG, no need to pay any royalties, even if your site is a high traffic site
  5. Re:Quick Info by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 0, Troll

    assuming you have the correct versions of [insert programs/libraries here] installed.... most of the time it does. (note the fact that i said 'most of the time', because due to badly written packages, sometimes it doesn't)

    and just in case you missed the fucking point of what is was saying: there needs to be a way to install linux software that requires a double click on a file, and perhaps a few clicks on [ok] dialouge boxes. This is the main reason i do not recommend linux to friends. As far as 'ease of use', its about equall to windows... but installing software/hardware and configuring system settings is a fucking rootcanal.

    your post is typical of the arogance of the linux comunity. You think that anyone who doesn't feel like memorizing dozzens of command line commands, options, switches, etc. is lazy or stupid. FUCK YOU! I don't want to have to reinvent the god damn wheel in order to install a god damn screensaver. I don't care about the power and versitility of the bash shell; i just want to browse the web and listen to mp3's.... and i shouldn't need a degree in computer science to do this. LET GO OF THE GOD DAMN PAST!!! THE COMMAND LINE DIED WHEN WINDOWS 3.1 WAS RELEASED!!! DEAL WITH IT!

    I really wish the nix community would quit trying to be leet and make an OS for the rest of us already.

    (oh, and in case anyone thinks im a newb, im currently in school for computers, have an A+, will soon have Net+ and w2k MCP, and i've been running linux for 6 months.)

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    "Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
  6. More samples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    More stunning samples here here. I especially like that animated flesh-tone circle!

  7. Awe, they're eye-popping! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... and, unlike the previous article, they don't even need a plug-in!

  8. "Ziegenpeter" authoring tool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nice pictures. But where can you download that "Ziegenpeter" authoring tool from that's mentioned in the Meta tag? And are the sound-related tags covered by the Dtd?

    1. Re:"Ziegenpeter" authoring tool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      That's just the German version of the excellent Goat's herdsman software

  9. <Sound> tags? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are they covered by the SVG Dtd? It was my impression that the Dtd only covered the visual aspects of an animation? Odlly enough, it still works both in Mozilla and in Konqueror.

  10. It's SMIL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    These tags are not SVG per se, but are hooks to call SMIL.

  11. Wow, they don't even need a plugin to view! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, unless you have a really old browser such as Nutscrape 3.0

  12. Dude, that's a _flash_ animation! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Subject sez it all

    1. Re:Dude, that's a _flash_ animation! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Wrong. If he was flashing, he would be facing in the other direction... hehe!

    2. Re:Dude, that's a _flash_ animation! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I'd say, it's a moon animation, don't you think?

  13. Mod parent as INFORMATIVE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    These SVG animations are really great!

  14. Re:SVG vs. Flash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, I am using an Athlon 10 Ghz machine and SVG takes half an hour! So there!

    It has to be said, I was using mozilla though ;o)