protecting SVG is pointless - was Re: [svg-developers] Protect SVG - Was Re: Today's Joke: Printing SVG in IE

2005-11-12 Thread Ronan Oger
More protection musings, For most of us, there is no point in protecting the SVG markup. The only value of the markup is that it generates a recognizable design and a behaviour, and that can be stolen by copying the results, rather than going through the huge trouble of understanding the

protecting SVG is pointless - was Re: [svg-developers] Protect SVG - Was Re: Today's Joke: Printing SVG in IE

2005-11-12 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Ronan, Let's assume your SVG document is the result of much creative efforts: i.e., it is the product you are presenting. Without some means of protecting viewing certain segments of that product, one can work backwards through that document, and rebuild the app. Therefore, by a strategy