From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-02-07T09:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: locana, SVG, cross-platform GUI meanderings...


> But we're talking about building a GUI on it so that may not be an issue,
> though personally I probably wouldn't work on a project which used Flash
> as the basis of a GUI primarily because it is a closed standard, while I
> would consider (if I had the time, so I'm speaking hypothetically here)
> building a GUI using SVG which is an open standard... but that's just my
> opinion.

so i'm polling here. i am working on a Ruby GUI, and it is in the very early 
stages. right now i am planning to use the GGI api for graphics rendering. 
what are the merits of SVG compared to something like GGI? what would be the 
draw in using one over the other? can SVG reasonably accomadate a GUI 
toolkit? could both SVG and GGI be used together seemlessly? by the way, GGI 
dosn't do font rendering and i was looking at using FreeType2 for that.

please advise.

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tom sawyer, aka transami
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