From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-11-25T09:19:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26387] Re: generating and serving SVG


"Armin Roehrl" <armin@approximity.com> wrote in message
news:0111240014131D.28105@linus...
> On Friday 23 November 2001 23:51, you wrote:
> > MikkelFJ wrote:
> > > Ruby and SVG are independtly two of the coolest technologies I've been
> > > investigating this year.
> > > It definitely would be cool to integrate the two...
> >
> > SVGUIs?
> Hi Tobi,
> can you describe a scenario in a GUI where you
> would really take advantage of SVG and increase the usability
> of the GUI? Sorry for being sceptic, just trying to see along
> what lines you think. I understand the potential of svg as it's
> vector graphics, but talking GUIs? Do you really need menus
> to scale, etc.?

The point is not the ability to create fancy scalable or non-square buttons.
The important thing is that it is a really promising technology for realtime
interactive drawing platform on the web - and therefore also responsive
web-applications.

SVG in place of a desktop GUI toolkit is not really interesting in itself
(unless it really can beat the alternatives on quality crossplatform
development).
But many applications are today being written for the Web at the cost of
reduced usability and responsiveness.
The need for Web'ed applications is huge.
This is where SVG Gui's can become really interesting - much more than
..Net's Web development tools.

Of course - if it runs on the web it also runs locally. It may well become
the foundation of tomorrows GUI's.

The big issues with SVG that remains are
1) SVG has the infrastructure but lacks good language bindings for
interactive programming.
2) the viewers are not quite good enough or standardized enough yet.

MikkelFJ