"John S. Gage" wrote: > > I strongly (very strongly) suggest that anyone interested in graphics on > the web go to the following site: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ > > There you will have the opportunity to download the latest version of > Mozilla that contains the SVG engine: > > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/mozilla-win32-svg-mathml.zip > > This is, unfortunately, a Window$ version of the browser, but once you get > it running on a, presumably, borrowed Window$ machine, you can then go to > the following site: > > http://www.croczilla.com/svg/ > > where you will see both the graphics and the XML underlying the graphics > that can do absolutely anything any rational physician would like to do > with graphics in a record right now. > > If this isn't the future, I will eat my hat (okay, I don't wear a hat ;-).
CSIRO have also released a Java-based SVG toolkit and viewer under an open source license - see http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg/ - as well as a very nice distributed, Web-based GIS (geographic information system) which uses the SVG to send the maps to teh thin Java clients (running ina browser) - also open sourced - see http://imp.cmis.csiro.au/imroc/csiro/ If you want to check out SVG in your current Windows or Mac browser, your best bet is probably the no-cost but closed source Adobe SVG plug-in at http://www.adobe.com/svg/main.html - no Linux support, alas, so you need to build the latest Mozilla with SVG support from source if you want SVG on Linux. The Python-driven open source Sketch diagramming package for Linux and Unix can read and write SVG - see http://sketch.sourceforge.net/. The open source Grace scientific graphics package for Unix and Linux only, can produce beautiful SVG (and PostScript and PNG) grapics natively - see http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ - SVG support seems to be planned for many other packages too. So, support for SVG is slowly appearing, and yes, I agree it is the future, even if Microsoft is doing everyting in its power to make enhanced Windows Metafile format lingua-franca of vector graphics. Tim C
