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W3C SVG Mobile Competition

Posted by michael on from the happy-birthday dept.

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.""

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  1. SVG tiny software at tinyline.com by Boiotos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.tinyline.com provides a viewer for Nokia series 60 MIDP, a 2D Graphics implementation for creating SVG Tiny docs and other cool stuff. The guy behind it is very fun to chat with, too. Cut and paste the link if you're interested.

  2. Why SVG is cool. by WasterDave · · Score: 3, Funny

    SVG exposes it's object model to DHTML, or whatever it's called. The thing you use to Javascript annoying trails of letters that follow the mouse around etc.

    It's XML, so it's easy for automated stuff to make.

    It's a standard.

    It's not patent encumbered.

    It's a lot better than GIF for a whole bunch of things that GIF's do.

    It's also one of those things that joins my list of "shit that would rule the world if only Netscape 2 had shipped with it instead of Java".

    Dave

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    I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
    1. Re:Why SVG is cool. by LionMage · · Score: 3, Informative
      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.