On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 at 02:32:01 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
I tend to agree that SVG is a bit specialized for our purposes
This is a misconception. SVG is a generic scene-graph-like DOM. Much in the same vain as OpenInventor and Flash (or Coin3D, which is a free implementation of OpenInventor). SVG is a hierarchy of transformations and shapes. It is very close to being a retained mode version of Display Postscript, which IS the graphics library of NeXT and very close to the generic graphics libraries of OS-X (Quartz) which is heavily based on NeXT. (And probably Direct2D too).
