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Second Annual SVG Open Conference
michael bolger points to this announcement that "SchemaSoft and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will host the 2nd annual SVG Open Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Vancouver, British Columbia from July 13-18, 2003 at the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina. The SVG Open 2003 Conference and Exhibition is a forum for software developers, Web developers, graphic artists and other technical specialists to exchange ideas, methods and advances related to Web graphics."
I've been using SVG as a good intermediate format, much like you would PPM in the raster world. I've been having to transmogrify Adobe Illustrator files into something that can be imported to a printed circuit board layout program. The file gets saved as a bitmap (to flatten it; haven't figured out how to flatten it in the vector domain), autotraced into SVG, and then run through a Perl script to convert beziers to line segments and output it in PCAD's file format. I chose SVG simply because it's more-or-less human-readable and still very easy to parse programatically.
It's a nice format, but I'm afraid it'll lose out to Flash on the web. It'll have a fighting chance if the major browsers would support SVG natively.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
We implemented an interactive drag-and-drop drawing tool using the Adobe SVG plugin. It's frankly amazing to drag things around as though you were in Visio (connection points and all), yet to be doing it just by updating the DOM of the drawing itself. Developing with SVG is incredibly fast.
SVG is enormously more useful than many realize. It's also one of those technologies that's not going away... it'll take a while for everyone to learn just how good it is, but once they do, watch out!
Cheers!