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SVG And The Free Desktop (s)

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @05:10AM from the lines-and-rules dept.

unmadindu writes "Christian Schaller has written an interesting article on SVG's current and possible uses on the GNU/Linux desktop. Though the article concentrates mostly on GNOME, it does mention the excellent work the KDE developers have been doing with KSVG, and refers to the upcoming SVG support in Mozilla too."

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JAADEA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-24 05:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Just another article that doesn't explain the acronym.
Re:SVG & Steganogrpahy? by Trigun · 2004-03-24 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

I hear Osama is hiding in a specifically crafted xml document.
Re:no one wants it by smittyoneeach · 2004-03-24 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

let the client deal with it

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Other implementation by sczimme · 2004-03-24 05:32 · Score: 2, Funny

Around 1994 or so I had an updated version of this working. It was a major revision, so it was called SVGA.

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Yes! Finally. Let's create an SVG desktop... by theendlessnow · 2004-03-24 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

... so I can finally use my 8 way Opteron with 16GB to its fullest potential!!
Re:SGI by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-24 05:44 · Score: 1, Funny

I remember SGI's 4DWM having completely vector based graphics back in 1992 (and probably before that). Has anyone else done it in the interim?
Seeing that the 1992's screenshot you gave have netscape on it is very impressive as Netscape was released in 1994
Re:SVG is the best thing ever! (Addendum) (Code) by scorp1us · 2004-03-24 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Example (as SVG):
<voice name="violin" source="violin.wav|mp3" as="g"> <song name="space notes scale"/> <use name="violin" shiftto="f"/> <use name="violin" shiftto="a"/> <use name="violin" shiftto="c"/> <use name="violin" shiftto="e"/> </song>

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Finally, I can resurrect my vector monitor! by 192939495969798999 · 2004-03-24 05:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Anyone remember vector monitors? Those things would be great to resurrect, supposing that SVG really kicks in on the desktop, and also supposing that we get some svg version of asteroids shipping with those new o/s installs... nice!

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Microsoft would by Slowtreme · 2004-03-24 06:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Who would try to embed some secret information in an XML file Didn't MS get a patent on XML file formats that have data encrypted inside them?

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Re:stupid acronyms by UnknowingFool · 2004-03-24 07:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Would it have killed you to say Scalable Vector Graphics once in the article?
You must be new here. This is /. It it's not an acronym, it's not worth mentioning.

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my start menu by DrSkwid · 2004-03-24 07:58 · Score: 2, Funny

ls /bin

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