W3C SVG Mobile Competition

openbear writes "Over at the W3C they just announced a new competition: "Design a SVG Tiny greeting card in 30k or less, and win a Nokia 3650 tri-band GSM handset. The best entries will be featured on the W3C Web site, linked to their designers' Web pages, with an interview with the winning designer. Enter as many times as you like through 3 November. The SVG Working Group will choose the winner who will be announced on 24 November. Read about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Announced at SVG Open, the SVG Mobile Competition is the first in a series of SVG competitions.""

Comments

Re:Why SVG is cool.

[openbear]

>A "standard" that requires most people (i.e, IE users) to download a plugin, a "standard" that almost nobody actually uses

If we judged standards by what was implemented in IE then we would all be in trouble :-)

There are plenty of people doing things with SVG:

• There is a beta of Mozilla that has native support for SVG.
• GNOME 2.2 can use SVG images not only for icons or desktop backgrounds, but also for the GUI widgets themselves and the graphics of the window manager
• Adobe certainly endorses it
• Corel
• Webdraw
• SVG Map Maker
• and the list goes on

Re:Why SVG is cool.

[LionMage]

A "standard" that requires most people (i.e, IE users) to download a plugin, a "standard" that almost nobody actually uses (unlike other similiar technologies like flash)

Interesting, considering that Flash requires a plugin as well, and the plugin that gets automagically installed with IE and Netscape often isn't the latest version (requiring you to download the latest Flash plugin). Yes, Flash is cool, but it's a closed, proprietary binary format.

SVG is cool because you can freely mix SVG elements with XHTML elements in the same document, and browsers such as Mozilla (with the optional SVG support compiled in) can render such documents appropriately. Because SVG DOM works just like any other XML DOM does, you can manipulate your SVG document in interesting ways in real time using Javascript in a browser environment.

SVG renders on small footprint devices (like PDAs and cell phones, which is what this SVG contest is all about) and requires very little CPU or memory, making it an ideal cross-platform vector graphics solution. This is a real solution to a very real problem, a problem that Flash can't solve (or can't solve well). Hopefully, SVG will replace Flash as more browsers incorporate SVG.

Re:Why SVG is cool.

[Anonymous Coward]

>>>Yes, Flash is cool, but it's a closed, proprietary binary format.

The flash format is an open proprietary and binary format. http://www.openswf.org/