[svg-developers] Re: UUgle Map of Pologonia

2013-08-19 Thread Francis Hemsher
When I go it says This is an Internet Explorer web application. So, you've lost me at the start. Why would you build an app in SVG that only works in IE? IE is about as popular as syphilis these days. I know well IE's characteristics required to build and introduce this web app. To

[svg-developers] Re: San Diego svg group?

2013-08-19 Thread Francis Hemsher
Greetings to all. I am interested in getting started creating maps in svg. Is there a group which meets in San Diego County? Thanks George Hey George, I lived in San Diego for about 30 years: La Jolla, Julian, Mesa Grande, Palomar Mountain..etc. Great and diverse place. I don't live

[svg-developers] Re: VectorShapes

2013-08-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
I wish the browser compatibility was greater at this time, but decided to get the site 'out there' and work on browser issues progressively. I surely agree with that approach: If the app gets some interest then spend the, mostly agonizing, time to get it cross browser. I use IE as my

[svg-developers] Re: Lot of newbie questions

2013-07-29 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Bert, Yes, this is the best place for you to have your svg questions answered...welcome aboard! 4. copycat prevent Is there any other way to hide the sourcecode of a big lossless scaleable (and therefore printable with high resolution) artwork instead of showing it only as a filmed

[svg-developers] Re: Change SVG path attributes on the fly - Data Driven SVG

2013-07-24 Thread Francis Hemsher
I'm currently working on a global map with paths for each country. All paths are stored in an xml file, worldPaths.xml: GlobalPaths xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg; path id=myCountryCode d=... / path id=myCountryCode d=... / path id=myCountryCode d=... / ... /GlobalPaths Then I call the

[svg-developers] Re: Power of SVG: Windows 8 Presentation Editor App

2013-07-23 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Zia ziakhan@... wrote: We have just published a free Windows 8 SVG app, Presentation Next: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/presentation-next/57c55802-1bdd-48c9-bf8b-e9e3c24cf051 It is a HTML5/SVG presentation builder and data

[svg-developers] Re: How to manipulate SVG DOM tree: locate items insert nodes?

2013-05-29 Thread Francis Hemsher
If you create an svg g id=MyG / ... To create the 'Z-order' in svg is to use MyG.appendChild(element) where you can control the stacking of elements. The last element is visually on top. You can also use the MyG.insertBefore(topElement,childTargetElement)to accomplish more sophisticated

[svg-developers] Re: use and xlink:href on IE

2013-05-23 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi@... wrote: * al_i_bi_bi wrote: I try to use an use tag with an xlink:href to an external SVG ... it's not supported in IE. This feature in most important when extracting a symbol from a library file IE should support this(I

[svg-developers] Re: super-simple typefaces

2013-05-08 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi David, Possibly this may be helpful to give you an idea of how SVG is used to build fonts. A few years ago I worked on a project to access svg Unicode fonts and modify them. I clipped the following from my app that lists the fonts available as SVG files in an array that would feed a url

[svg-developers] Re: Added interactivity to Voronoi diagram

2013-05-06 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi David, There is another interesting application for D3's Voronoi. It is based on Christopher Manning's Voronoi Diagram with Force Directed Nodes and Delaunay Links at: http://bl.ocks.org/1734663 It's not just another pretty SVG image. It can be used as the engine to tessellate random polygons

[svg-developers] Re: Beta testers for SVG web application

2013-04-03 Thread Francis Hemsher
. CVADRAT ludwig@... Sure, I'll be glad to help. I'm working something similar in a series of SVG tessellation web apps. I recently published an eBook as the first in this series see: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1000-uniform-tile-patterns-francis-hemsher/1114844981?ean=2940016184166 I'm

[svg-developers] Re: coordinates are on the scale of 100

2012-10-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Yevgeny aqoon88@... wrote: hello, i am trying to understand how to read path data, specifically why the 'trapezoid' in this http://jsfiddle.net/aqoon/LN23r/52/ original coordinates are on the scale of 100? thanks I don't understand the 'scale of

[svg-developers] SVG Python

2012-08-27 Thread Francis Hemsher
I needed sophisticated math to generate SVG polygons. Javscript just didn't have the Math handling I required. Therefore, I decided to give Python a try. It works just dandy. I registered Python as a scripting language at the server. I can then generate the data to build SVG either on the

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Element Drag/Drop Issue on Zoomed in SVG

2012-08-10 Thread Francis Hemsher
in effect for svg viewbox. Regards, Vishal --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher fhemsher@ wrote: Hi Vishal, I have used the following to track the cursor as related to inline SVG: //---x,y offset values for svgDiv (no page scrolling)--- function findPos(obj

[svg-developers] Re: How to prevent some parts from scale?

2012-07-31 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, susan.darts susan.darts@... wrote: Hello all, I have a trapezoid formed shape, drawn by path. It looks like a rectangle with triangels on the left and right border. Now I want to scale this shape horizontally. It works fine, but scaling

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Element Drag/Drop Issue on Zoomed in SVG

2012-07-26 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Vishal, I have used the following to track the cursor as related to inline SVG: //---x,y offset values for svgDiv (no page scrolling)--- function findPos(obj) { var curleft = curtop = 0; if (obj.offsetParent) { do { curleft +=

[svg-developers] Re: replicate

2011-11-30 Thread Francis Hemsher
David Wrote: a) The Working Group recently decided [3] not to adopt replicate, unless it is accompanied by concrete use cases and demonstration of author/implementor interest. Hi David, For the past few weeks I have been evaluating the d3 Javascript library that is used to generate

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Open, day one...

2011-10-22 Thread Francis Hemsher
3. Mike Bostock (Square) talked about D3. It was undoubtedly the most discussed presentation of the conference. D3 is the intellectual descendent of Protovis that Mike developed at Stanford with his advisor Jeff Heer. D3 is utterly amazing! People involved in scientific, economic,

[svg-developers] Re: Any Maor Advantages of SVG over CSS3 animation

2011-10-20 Thread Francis Hemsher
Raks Wrote: I will be happier if I can hear some definitive advantages of SVG over Canvas+CSS3Animation What I see in Canvas are some talented individuals demonstrating very impressive graphics. I've looked at those examples and have determined SVG can do the same, and more...Wishing those

[svg-developers] Re: Any Maor Advantages of SVG over CSS3 animation

2011-10-20 Thread Francis Hemsher
where the SVG element is more defined that the Canvas. Note: Both files are HTML5 with inline SVG and Canvas, suggest using IE9 to view. -Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher fhemsher@... wrote: Raks Wrote: I will be happier if I can hear some definitive

[svg-developers] Re: text selector in ASV

2011-10-18 Thread Francis Hemsher
Thomas.O.Smailus@... wrote: Yeah, this is ancient... but... Did you ever get a solution to this: A way to turn off the default ASV text highlighting functionality? Peter Sorotokin (Jan 2002) wrote: You need to do this: evt.preventDefault() in all your event handlers (mousedown,

[svg-developers] SVG - marketing efforts

2011-10-13 Thread Francis Hemsher
It's my opinion that SVG needs a bit of marketing. It seems the general web development community has not yet become aware of just how great SVG can be employed to enhance their product. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can launch SVG into web developer awareness? Regards, Francis

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-17 Thread Francis Hemsher
David Daley Wrote: Better yet, rather than spend the energy doing these (the last one in particular will be fun), why not devote similar energies into enhancing either FakeSMIL or SMILScript (or helping to convince our friends at Microsoft to do so), so that authors who don't want to spend

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-17 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, David Dailey ddailey@... wrote: Also, not trying to pile on, but my curiosity surrounds the issue of what things did you find that worked in IE9 that don't work elsewhere? I have found that almost anything that works in IE9 works elsewhere already,

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-17 Thread Francis Hemsher
dark3251@wrote: OK, show me a SMIL animation. I'll present comparable JavaScript that will do the same, but better. Deal. I had some key values laying around from a project I did a while ago. I will be happy to look at how efficiently (and quickly) you can make this animation

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- Jeff Schiller wrote: if(user.indexOf(MSIE 9.0)==-1 user.indexOf(MSIE 10.0)==-1) um... I'm not trying to pile on here, but I can't fathom why you would design this application for one and only one browser. To my count, you're serving 7% of web users and leaving the other 48% (yes,

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, dark3251 dark3251@... wrote: This is just not so. What 'very large portion' of SVG functionality does IE9 lack? SMIL SMIL is...dead,dead,dead. A bit of JavaScript can provide a much richer animation experience than the canned methods of SMIL

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, dark3251 dark3251@... wrote: SMIL is...dead,dead,dead. A bit of JavaScript can provide a much richer animation experience than the canned methods of SMIL ;) Dead? More like just being born... First, I would disagree, because SMIL has the

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, dark3251 dark3251@... wrote: Whoops, messed that link up: Animation http://static.dorshnik.com/test/keys.svg I've loaded the above into FF, Opera, and IE9/ASV. All exhibit an obnoxious 'flashing' when the animation fires each time for mouseover. FF

[svg-developers] SVG Drawing Tool - Simplified

2011-09-15 Thread Francis Hemsher
A few years ago, I built an SVG drawing app that worked in a Cloud, and created SVG symbols and symbol libraries. Alas, it was, and remains, abit ahead of the times. Therefore, I've simplified it, and am calling it SVGDiscovery_Lite. This creates basic SVG drawings whose source can be

[svg-developers] Re: SVG scripting support for IDE

2011-09-14 Thread Francis Hemsher
I've created a listing and examples of SVG methods, properties, styles, and attributes for scripting. (the file below is best viewed in IE9) See; http://www.svgDiscovery.com/SVGJavascriptREF/ --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Zdeněk Kedaj zdenek.kedaj@... wrote: Hello, I have spent

[svg-developers] Re: How to define canvas?

2011-09-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, fuliopen fuliopen@... wrote: Please open the following page: http://www.pinyinology.com/diaoHao2a/simple/svg/hcircle.html You can see a circle is not full.  I guess this is because the canvas is not properly defined.  I like the canvas is the

[svg-developers] Epub and SVG on Nook (yes, but very limited)

2011-06-15 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi, I've created some epub documents including SVG, using Sigil, and read them via the Nook Color for PC reader. It does display some SVG, but is somewhat limited: It doesnt do much more than read basic shapes. Does anyone know which epub readers currently support SVG with more substance than

[svg-developers] Re: use tag to include SVG defs from another file

2011-05-28 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- AndrewB a.j.brasher@... wrote: Am I making a mistake in my coding, or is Firefox the only browser which will load defs from external files? The ability to refer to one set of icon definitions from many SVG files is really useful, so I am hoping it's my coding which is at fault! Hi

[svg-developers] Re: Creating use and symbol elements from script - browser implementations

2011-04-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Robert Longson longsonr@... wrote: Me thinks W3C is attempting to deprecate xlink:href and allow href to also be used. Yes, but that's not where you're going wrong. href is in the xlink namespace and you set it as setAttributeNS(xlinkns,

[svg-developers] Re: Creating use and symbol elements from script - browser implementations

2011-04-01 Thread Francis Hemsher
Robert Longson wrote: use1.setAttributeNS(xref,xlink:href, #mySymbol) is incorrect. The correct form would be use1.setAttributeNS(xref,href, #mySymbol) Best regards Robert. Hi Robert, Me thinks W3C is attempting to deprecate xlink:href and allow href to also be used. However

[svg-developers] Re: Creating use and symbol elements from script - browser implementations

2011-03-31 Thread Francis Hemsher
Nick de Voil wrote: As part of a web-based drawing and diagramming application, I would like to be able to create use elements on the fly, referring to symbol elements which would themselves also ideally be defined on the fly. So far, it seems that, if I define the symbols in a static

[svg-developers] Re: Creating use and symbol elements from script - browser implementations

2011-03-31 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher fhemsher@... wrote: Nick de Voil wrote: As part of a web-based drawing and diagramming application, I would like to be able to create use elements on the fly, referring to symbol elements which would themselves also ideally

[svg-developers] HTML5 drag/drop events on SVG

2011-03-07 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi, Does anyone know of examples of the new HTML5 drag/drop events(ondrag, ondragend, ondragenter, ondragleave, ondragover, ondragstart, ondrop) for SVG elements? Thanks, Francis - To unsubscribe send a message to:

[svg-developers] Re: Native support for page panning in browsers

2011-01-20 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi David, Because SVG has no specifics on UI zoom and pan, many of us have had to create script packages to accomplish this. No matter how elegant our zoom/pan works, it still requires the user to 'learn' how to use it within our particular app.: This is a burden to the SVG user. Therefore,

[svg-developers] Re: MS acquires ASV3 to bundle in IE8?

2008-11-12 Thread Francis Hemsher
Guy Morton Wrote: Where are people getting the ideas that either MS is serious about adding native SVG support to IE, or that there is any chance at all that Adobe would sell them ASV? I mean, it's a nice daydream of course, but this is MS we're talking about here... Has anyone

[svg-developers] MS acquires ASV3 to bundle in IE8?

2008-11-12 Thread Francis Hemsher
and MS. Regards, Francis Hemsher - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click edit my membership Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http

[svg-developers] Re: MS acquires ASV3 to bundle in IE8?

2008-11-12 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, John C. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Francis, I wish I shared your optimism. MS have a history of ignoring international standards and coming up with their own extremely similar but MS-only standard. They have shown no interest

[svg-developers] Re: MS acquires ASV3 to bundle in IE8?

2008-11-12 Thread Francis Hemsher
John C. Turnbull wrote: Excellent suggestion Francis! But... it will never happen. Why not? One word: Silverlight. Why support SVG when you can lock your customers in to a proprietary MS technology? Hi John, Yes, it is apparent to all that the XAML/Silverlight folks at MS have

[svg-developers] Re: creating offset geometry for polyline/polygon elements in SVG

2007-10-12 Thread Francis Hemsher
My approach to do this, as code-aholic :), would be to include the element within an SVG element with a specified viewBox. Make a copy of thes SVG element(clone it), include a dash-array for the clone's stroke, then adjust the clone's viewBox to give you offset needed. This can be done

[svg-developers] Coins: Mobile Image Messaging - Prototype

2007-07-09 Thread Francis Hemsher
This is a desk-top prototype demonstration for our SVG image messaging on mobile units. It is currently under development to deploy within various mobile user agents. The concept is similiar to threads and posts for data-sharing applications. The collections are the threads, the coins are its

[svg-developers] Re: Way to embed HTML within SVG?

2006-10-28 Thread Francis Hemsher
I wish these Yahoo lists could allow a graceful correction to posts... Anyway, style visibility:visible is required rather than visibility='visiblity'. Standard CSS applies ;) --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to embed HTML

[svg-developers] Re: Batik as an IE plugin

2006-10-26 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Andreas, No matter how very great a plugin can be, most institutions will not allow their downloads. Unless the package is resident, it will be unavailable to about 70% of the quality audience. Also, I think the ActiveX thingie in IE7 is a mess. Francis Cameron, I remember that you said

[svg-developers] Re: Native SVG in IE

2006-10-25 Thread Francis Hemsher
Microsoft will take SVG and run with it. If they can create a Save as SVG function from their WPF interface I think they have a great market - i.e. Develop in Windows and run anywhere. Bruce --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: Hey Bruce, I

[svg-developers] Re: Native SVG in IE

2006-10-19 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hey Bruce, I think you and I took a peek at this comment about the same time today:) I guess I'll share what I mumbled to myself... The quick fix to the substanital response by SVG'ers to the IE7 team to include SVG may have been to package the ASV3 with IE7. However Adobe is not, in any way,

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Contractor

2006-08-04 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Chaste, It's what we do... See: www.mobiusPortal.com Who do you represent? Regards, Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, cch091267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I posted yesterday asking where to find good SVG contractors and I have received a lot of interest from ppl in

[svg-developers] Re: ASV 3.03 as ActiveX UserControl possible?

2006-07-25 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Stefan, I think you should contact Jon Frost. He is both SVG and .NET savvy. Regards, Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, mmaker21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, during the last few months I built a .NET UserControl for a (big) customer, that extends ASV3.02 with scrollbars,

[svg-developers] Need for SVG Transport

2006-07-05 Thread Francis Hemsher
There is a need to transport SVG displays: for print or email. Anyone who has the talent to take a 'snapshot' of a dynamic display of the SVG image and package it for transport for both printing and email will be much appreciated. Thanks, Francis P.S. Phi, do you understand? - To

[svg-developers] Re: svg plugins for mozilla required

2006-07-04 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hey Jonathan, The scent of the daisey is subtle, yet substantial, for those who appreciate its existence. Regards, Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use IE? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 4 Jul 2006, at 06:53, Denish

[svg-developers] Re: Vote for SVG Support in IE7

2006-05-06 Thread Francis Hemsher
@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher | Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: | | Hello All, | | I've looked at the recent votes, and its at about 185 and | continuing. | | I guess we could go on for the next few months and build | this to any | number. I think it's time to make a statement

[svg-developers] Re: Vote for SVG Support in IE7

2006-05-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
their input. Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Doug Schepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Francis- Nice work getting this ball rolling. I'm not sure how much affect it will have, but it certainly can't hurt. I also posted this to SVG.org. Francis Hemsher wrote: | | P.S

[svg-developers] Re: Vote for SVG Support in IE7

2006-04-27 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher The voting is currently at 72 and counting... (I looked at other voting subjects, and SVG can pull ahead of the pack in voting interest.) I think the knowledgeble comments with each vote are excellent, showing a substantial

[svg-developers] Re: Vote for SVG Support in IE7

2006-04-26 Thread Francis Hemsher
ahead of the pack in voting interest.) I think the knowledgeble comments with each vote are excellent, showing a substantial awareness of SVG, the marketplace, how IE can participate. Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: The Internet

[svg-developers] Vote for SVG Support in IE7

2006-04-25 Thread Francis Hemsher
The Internet Explorer 7 team is now taking input on how to support SVG in the final build of IE7, and also looking to ideas for IE8. You can cast a vote and add commments directly to that team. See: https://connect.microsoft.com/default.aspx (To vote and comment takes a few moments to join the

[svg-developers] Re: Vote for SVG Support in IE7

2006-04-25 Thread Francis Hemsher
alternative? Jeff --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Richard Gnyla richard@ wrote: Nice find Francis Voted already, lets hope they listen now..the more people vote the better, come on guys Richard Francis Hemsher wrote: The Internet Explorer 7 team is now taking

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-22 Thread Francis Hemsher
I agree, Ronan. I guess it's in my nature to overreact to things that bother me. Batik looks good. Ronan Oger wrote: Francis, there is no learning curve involved. Batik comes with a rasteriser called batik-rasteriser, which you call on the command line. When in doubt, ask google, or

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-21 Thread Francis Hemsher
errors. I wouldn't normally post this here, but hopefully someone can get back to them so they can fix the problem. Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Doug Tom, This looks like it could be fun. I'll go for PNG and Batik: a bit

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-21 Thread Francis Hemsher
files. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: Shucks, I was about have some fun with Batik. But their navigation bar creates a ton of errors so I can't navigate the site. I have IE6 w/Windows XP-pro. Also, being a developer, I keep

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-21 Thread Francis Hemsher
I guess what I must say is if Batik can't get past a clean navigation process of their site then I don't want to use them. You say there is no problem?...well I surely know if I do have a problem, don't you think? Francis Francis Hemsher wrote: | | Shucks, I was about have some fun

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-21 Thread Francis Hemsher
that has such a basic flaw in user interaction? Francis Doug Schepers wrote: Francis Hemsher wrote: | | I guess what I must say is if Batik can't get past a clean | navigation process of their site then I don't want to use them. Even if the site has problems (which I don't buy

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-21 Thread Francis Hemsher
Phi Wrote: As I understand that this list nourishes professionalism. We do promote respecting of all other developers as well as ourselves. As the professional once we go on legitimate web site and if their script is put on the external JS file. It is a clear underlined intention of those

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-21 Thread Francis Hemsher
Phi Wrote: As I understand that this list nourishes professionalism. We do promote respecting of all other developers as well as ourselves. As the professional once we go on legitimate web site and if their script is put on the external JS file. It is a clear underlined

[svg-developers] Re: Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-20 Thread Francis Hemsher
job in creating the document. Thanks, Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, svg-developers@yahoogroups.com wrote on 04/20/2006 12:52:33 AM: Francis Hemsher wrote: | | Based on that view, its elements, translations, and zoom level, I can

[svg-developers] Sending SVG segment by Email

2006-04-19 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hello, I need some help. I'm beginning to work on feature whereby a viewer can zoom into a segment of the SVG document and send that view off to a friend, via email. Based on that view, its elements, translations, and zoom level, I can build an SVG document on the server. After It's built,

[svg-developers] Re: An SVG Tutorial

2006-04-17 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Richard and/or Alex I looked at your app. It's the typical initial effort to address SVG in the unrealistic environment of cross-browser creations. If you want to continue in this direction, you will find you are expending 90% of your time in the frustrations of browser anomalies, rather

[svg-developers] Re: Coordinate systems in SVG Mapping / GIS

2006-04-09 Thread Francis Hemsher
Geoffrey Swenson wrote: My limited experience so far with Firefox's SVG implementation leads me to believe that it is so buggy and incomplete that it is useless. I'd rather try to force it to use the Adobe plugin. Mozilla seems totally incapable of running the Adobe plugin, and Opera runs

[svg-developers] Re: Some SVG DOM questions

2006-03-31 Thread Francis Hemsher
Darryl Watson wrote: Hello again- I'm using IE6 and ASV 3.03. I think I'm struggling with some misconceptions about how events work in SVG. I have an embedded SVG document, and most of the time, I have a common set of onclick and onmouseover handlers defined on the SVG tag of the

[svg-developers] IE7 and ASV3 ActiveX

2006-03-31 Thread Francis Hemsher
I believe there is a magic oportunity at this time to convince MS Adobe that they can include ASV3 in the IE7 browser. Gad, no download, that would enhance SVG use a thousand-fold. I suggest you excercise your intelligence to foster this oportunity. Francis - To unsubscribe send a

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 Beta 2 has an SVG Embed Problem-WORKAROUND

2006-03-30 Thread Francis Hemsher
Francis.Hemsher wrote: I've tested a few neat ideas. Any workarounds will be a freebie :) btw, I've seen a few tricky approaches by the macromedia folks. (I guess we can work together on this.) The easiest workaround is to create a js file that holds a document.write for the embed.

[svg-developers] Re: $50,000 reward if FF can run my SVG site

2006-03-27 Thread Francis Hemsher
PROTECTED] wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked my accountant today If I could put 50 grand(US) on the line. She chuckled, and said not again, Francis...we've travelled many intresting journeys together. I, for a fact, know

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 Beta 2 has an SVG Embed Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Francis Hemsher
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:svg- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Hemsher Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 5:27 PM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] Re: IE7 Beta 2 has an SVG Embed Problem John Dowdell wrote: Francis Hemsher wrote: I think you left out the most

[svg-developers] Class Action: SVG Developers vs MS Adobe

2006-03-26 Thread Francis Hemsher
Frankly, I'm tired of dealing with the crap of Adobe and the manipulations of MS relative to SVG and its developers. For almost five years we have been frustated in our efforts to provide commercial applications for SVG. I would like to suggest a class action suite by SVG developers against

[svg-developers] Re: Class Action: SVG Developers vs MS Adobe

2006-03-26 Thread Francis Hemsher
of hours. Richard --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: Frankly, I'm tired of dealing with the crap of Adobe and the manipulations of MS relative to SVG and its developers. For almost five years we have been frustated in our efforts to provide

[svg-developers] Re: Class Action: SVG Developers vs MS Adobe

2006-03-26 Thread Francis Hemsher
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, what about the time he/she said her accountant said she could afford to offer $50,000 prize to this list. Didn't somebody solve that programming challenge? But what ever happened to the $50,000? Was it paid? If the challenge was solved and the

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 Beta 2 has an SVG Embed Problem

2006-03-24 Thread Francis Hemsher
Francis Hemsher wrote: IE7 Beta 2 Preview(3/20/2006) does not initially focus on the events contained within an SVG document included in an embed. It provides its own statement, via an onMouseOver popup display: click to activate and use this control. That is true. It is not just

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 Beta 2 has an SVG Embed Problem

2006-03-24 Thread Francis Hemsher
is here and nobody is anywhere near to disband them. Domenico --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, John Dowdell jdowdell@ wrote: Francis Hemsher wrote: IE7 Beta 2 Preview(3/20/2006) does not initially focus on the events contained within an SVG document included in an embed

[svg-developers] Re: SVGDeveloper,a powerful tool to develop svg application, released version 1.0

2006-03-05 Thread Francis Hemsher
has someone used it? please let me know if you have some suggestions. thank you! I'll be happy to give you some feedback. Right now, I'm downloading your package with the .Net framework. Gee, it tells me that it will take about 2 hours. First suggestion: speed up the download :) Francis

[svg-developers] Re: Better way to make poeple download ASV

2006-03-05 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Fulio Pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following page contains svg files and the visitor is asked to download the ASV. Wondering if there is a better way to invite people for downloading. Or the file will be automatically downloaded when the file is

[svg-developers] Re: SVGDeveloper,a powerful tool to develop svg application, released version 1.0

2006-03-05 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: has someone used it? please let me know if you have some suggestions. thank you! I'll be happy to give you some

[svg-developers] Re: Thoughts on optimizing ASV rendering SVG with 5,000 elements

2006-02-25 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Doug, This a meaningfull subject for serious SVG apps that generate 1000's of elements from XML data. I posted an example file on this list awhile back that addressed 10,000 elements. see: xmlSVG1.zip The basic approach was that a viewer wants to quickly see a sampling of the elements

[svg-developers] Re: bounding box

2006-02-25 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Bruno, Just a quick response, and apologize for not looking further into your app. JavaScript/ECMAscript is not happy with variable names that are integers. Could that be the problem..? Francis Bruno Marquié wrote: Hi all, I need your lights! I am working with IE and ASV 3. I have a

[svg-developers] Re: Outline of ellipse

2006-02-04 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Fulio, Have fun at clip and mask. Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Fulio Pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to draw an ellipse that consists of half of the border being in dashed line, and the other half in solid line. http://www.pinyinology.com/svg/ellipse1.svg

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-03 Thread Francis Hemsher
Francis: Did you have a grand time on your vacation? I hope you met your significant other. Dominico: No, but I finally met with Nirvana, she says hello to anyone who's still looking for her. Shucks, 20 years ago I met her Amsterdam...tell her I said hi(hope she remembers). Francis

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:02, Francis Hemsher wrote: I've tested IE7 beta 2 and find it seamless and worthy for those who have developed SVG in the IE browser, using Adobe SVG Viewer 3. What this means is that the IE browser of the future fully supports your efforts of the past. Also

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Schiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: Hi Ronan, Of course, the ASV3 was a plugin. It worked great..no hiccups nor trying to make it 'fit', in a very sophisticated

[svg-developers] Re: IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-02 Thread Francis Hemsher
either, booh). Domenico --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Francis Hemsher Francis.Hemsher@ wrote: Hi Ronan, Of course, the ASV3 was a plugin. It worked great..no hiccups nor trying to make it 'fit', in a very sophisticated app. I've made a request to MS to consider

[svg-developers] IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-01 Thread Francis Hemsher
I've tested IE7 beta 2 and find it seamless and worthy for those who have developed SVG in the IE browser, using Adobe SVG Viewer 3. What this means is that the IE browser of the future fully supports your efforts of the past. Also, it provides a stable environment for your future development.

[svg-developers] Re: Sending svg objects to server

2005-12-19 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Verusa, I use IE6 and Active Server Pages. I send XML to a file, then, I guess you can insert it as svg elements into SVG file. However, I keep it as XML and then download it later to propagate an SVG file on the client. Below is an example with one element: function sendCircle() {

[svg-developers] Re: SVG the Adobe-Macromedia merger

2005-12-18 Thread Francis Hemsher
Andrew, I don't think you are as independent as I am in drawing conclusions about MS's manipulation of W3C. You seem linked to MS.. Andrew Watt is an independent consultant and computer book author with an interest and expertise in various XML technologies. Currently, he is focusing on the

[svg-developers] Re: SVG the Adobe-Macromedia merger

2005-12-17 Thread Francis Hemsher
On Saturday 17 December 2005 04:35, Francis Hemsher wrote: Hi Sherm, I guess you sent this as a statement from Adobe as a positive indication of their continuing support of SVG. The following quote from below to meet the needs of customers and partners tells me as, an open-source developer

[svg-developers] Re: SVG the Adobe-Macromedia merger

2005-12-17 Thread Francis Hemsher
Dominico Wrote; 'cause I'm on vacation for 15 days starting... now! Shame, because I would like to develop. Sure, If you're 10 seconds away from you laptop, you'll probably suffer withdrawal... Just kidding, enjoy. Francis P.S. Much can happen in 15 days...

[svg-developers] Re: SVG the Adobe-Macromedia merger

2005-12-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
Hi Sherm, I guess you sent this as a statement from Adobe as a positive indication of their continuing support of SVG. The following quote from below to meet the needs of customers and partners tells me as, an open-source developer, to expect diddly from Adobe in the true future of SVG. In my

[svg-developers] Re: newbie with a question about scaling

2005-12-16 Thread Francis Hemsher
I took a look at your URL. The SVG file must be as big as horse:) I waited 5 mins, but it didn't appear. Try putting it in an EMBED... Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, bluolinist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to preface with a warning that I am as fresh of a

[svg-developers] Developers Strike for Open Source! - was(Is Adobe abandoning SVG?)

2005-12-15 Thread Francis Hemsher
I think at, this time, open-source can rule the future. It seems to me that developers have invested millions upon millions of frustrating hours in attempting to make their stuff work in many bizarre envrionments. Let's take some time, and quit this silliness, and go on strike. A simple

[svg-developers] Re: Is Adobe abandoning SVG?

2005-12-14 Thread Francis Hemsher
Probably the only honest answer to your question... Yes, Francis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, gee_whiz_bang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the ASV 6 beta (from http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html ) and it looks really good. The antialiasing looks better,

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