+1 On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > FWIW, the new framework I'm working on is probably going to be less > vector > > graphic oriented and rely on bitmaps since I think bitmaps are how most > > things get "skinned" in html/js/css > > > > > This really worries me. Are you saying that we dont want to support FXG in > FlexJS? > > Spark skinning paradigm is one of the best out there. Are we willing to > throw it out because HTML/JS cant support it? That is not a vision of Flex > that existing developers would like (including me) > > At the very minimum, we should support the BitmapImage (and related > classes) That would be better than no FXG support at all. > > As an aside, most FXG elements have SVG equivalents. In that sense FXG is > only an XSLT transformation away from SVG (I had to do the reverse > transformation for a project a while ago) > > Most modern browsers support inlining SVG with HTML5 [1] If we can skin > HTML elements using SVG like this [2], that would be a big win for us. > This would bring us so much closer to how we skin MXML with FXG. > > FYI, there is a whole bunch of inline SVG + HTML5 usage examples here [3] > > Thanks, > Om > > [1] http://caniuse.com/svg-html5 > [2] > > http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/html5/svg_html/SVG_HTML_Elements_003.html > [3] > http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/html5/svghtml_harness.htm >
