[svg-developers] The Graphical Web / SVG Open 2012 conference

2012-08-03 Thread Andi Neumann
, the conference fee is a bit more expensive. Looking forward to meet many of you in Zurich. Andreas Neumann Member of The Graphicalweb 2012 conference team - To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http

[svg-developers] The Graphical Web / SVG Open 2012 Conference Registration open

2012-07-18 Thread Andi Neumann
to the registration: http://www.idbd.evento.ethz.ch/dispatch.asp?fct=AnmeldungEditIdAnlass=1282 The deadline for reduced early bird registration ends on August 13. Looking forward to meet you in Zurich. Thank you for registering soon. Andreas Neumann Organizer The Graphical Web 2012 Conference

[svg-developers] Re: A path from SVG to MS Word?

2012-04-02 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi David, At about every occasion I see Microsoft and OpenOffice developers I am trying to convince them to support SVG as a static image format in their office suites. Somehow graphic in Office (no difference if MsOffice or OpenOffice) seems not be a high priority. The best in your case is

[svg-developers] SVG Open The Graphical Web conference

2012-03-28 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi, I would like to send a reminder that the Call for Participation for the SVG Open The Graphical Web 2012 conference will end on April 16. I am looking forward to all of your cool abstracts for presentations and courses. See http://www.svgopen.org/2012/participate.shtml or

[svg-developers] Re: SVGopen 2012 Conference Website is up

2012-02-23 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi Jerry, I followed your advice and added the additional fonts. Better now? I did not advertise this yet, since I need to fix something in the database to allow for abstract submissions. I will inform this list of course once it is fully available. I just wanted to make date, time and the

[svg-developers] Re: Adobe Labs Wallaby's use of SVG

2011-03-11 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi, I also noticed this project - however, I am very sceptical if it is the correct approach. They seem to export every single flash frame into a single SVG file. A very small and simple animation results in almost one thousand single SVG files and a collective size with 3.5 MB, with a lot of

[svg-developers] SVG Open 2011 - Call for Participation

2011-03-04 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi SVG Developers, The 9th edition of the SVG Open conference takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts (next to Boston), USA, from Monday Oct. 17 to Thursday Oct. 20, hosted by Microsoft. Please find initial information at http://www.svgopen.org/2011/ - some information is still missing, but

[svg-developers] Re: Preliminary information on SVG Open 2011

2011-02-03 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi Jon, I am still involved with the organization of SVG Open 2011 (we'll have some updates soon). I personally have no experience with Video at all. However, when we are at this stage in the organization we will have a look at the options we have regarding video recording, including Tegrity.

[svg-developers] SVG in Android 3.0 Honeycomb?

2011-02-03 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi, Got this link from Jeff Schiller: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-honeycombs-browser-supports-svg.html Note that it is not an official announcement by Google, but it is likely that the newer Webkit releases in Android 3.0 will have SVG enabled, finally. Makes sense in my

[svg-developers] SVG in LibreOffice (OpenOffice fork)

2011-01-26 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi all, LibreOffice 3.3 (the OpenOffice fork after Oracle's Sun takeover) was just released. See http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ It allows to import SVG graphics in text documents (Writer) and the import and editing in the Presentation/Graphics tool Impress.

[svg-developers] SVG charting

2011-01-26 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi all, There are a number of SVG based charting libraries available. We've seen JSXGraph (http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/) and dojox.charting with dojo.gfx (http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojox/charting.html). Also Raphael comes with some charting examples. Now Sencha, the maker

[svg-developers] YUI 3 and SVG

2011-01-17 Thread Andi Neumann
Seems like YUI also increasingly uses SVG: see charts examples at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/charts/ Andreas - To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers

[svg-developers] Re: website using svg

2011-01-17 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi Jake, I wanted to have a brief look at this website, but I am greeted with the message: Flash 8 or above is not installed. Get Flash! with no other content. I tested with Opera 11 or Firefox 3.6x on Linux Ubuntu 64bit. I don't have Flash installed, since it frequently crashes on Linux.

[svg-developers] Preliminary information on SVG Open 2011

2011-01-10 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi all, Here is some first information on SVG Open 2011, the annual worldwide SVG developers conference - just that you will know the location and date. SVG Open 2011 will be hosted by Microsoft at its New England Research Development Center (http://microsoftcambridge.com/) located in the

[svg-developers] Re: getTotalLength and getPointAtLength

2010-10-28 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi David, sorry, this is not a quick answer (4 days later). ad 1: they are defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/paths.html#InterfaceSVGPathElement ad 2: it says ..., as a distance in the current user coordinate system. It doesn't specifically discuss transformations. Maybe you can raise an

[svg-developers] SVG Open 2010 Photos for viewing

2010-10-05 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi, The photographer and the local organizers provide the official SVG Open photos for viewing at the following two Picasa sites: Part 1: http://picasaweb.google.fr/33747712649944128/20100830Et20100831?authkey=Gv1sRgCPbF2az_kofp9AE# Part 2:

[svg-developers] Re: Dom Manipulation...

2010-09-20 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi, You should really ask question nr 2 on the Batik mailing list. Regarding question 1: Have a look at the display and visibility attribute. display=none means that this part won't be rendered and isn't regarded as part or the DOM tree. Visibility is a bit different - it just doesn't display

[svg-developers] Re: Viewer

2010-09-07 Thread Andi Neumann
Hi, If you are not targeting the web browser or a mobile device, but more embedding in other applications I would use one of the many open source or commercial GIS applications out there that can view Postgis. Most of them can also be embedded in other applications. Java: gvsig, OpenJump,

[svg-developers] Re: Anyone afford me a free pass to SVG conference

2010-07-23 Thread Andi Neumann
Veiko, I suggest you ask the local organizers - you can get in touch with them at i...@svgopen.org I am sure there will be a solution to the problem - esp. if you can offer them some contribution, e.g. a poster. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Veiko Herne veik...@... wrote:

[svg-developers] Re: Converting maps into SVG

2009-01-12 Thread Andreas Neumann
I don't know with what maps you have to deal - but if the map is actively maintained than chances are high that the underlying vector data is available. If you can contact the map author, I would do so. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, John C. Turnbull ozem...@... wrote: What

[svg-developers] Re: displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08

2009-01-02 Thread Andreas Neumann
pen From: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@... To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2009 9:48:50 AM Subject: [svg-developers] Re: displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08 luckily, IE is rapidly loosing marketshare: worlwide: 68

[svg-developers] Re: displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08

2009-01-01 Thread Andreas Neumann
luckily, IE is rapidly loosing marketshare: worlwide: 68% - http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market- share.aspx?qprid=1 in Europe: much lower: http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1229975289416 (a well-known austrian newspaper - IE is below 50%)

[svg-developers] SVG Open 2009 in the USA

2008-12-23 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know about the upcoming SVG Open. The plan is to have the SVG Open 2009 in the US. Unfortunately we haven't yet made a final decision, but we have three candidate locations (2 on the east coast and one on the east coast). The date will be in the autumn of

[svg-developers] Re: Safari 3.2.1 with ASV 3.0 won't View Source

2008-12-18 Thread Andreas Neumann
with ASV3 and Firefox3, so I had assumed I had coded it correctly. —Ken On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:48 AM, svg-developers@yahoogroups.com wrote: Re: Safari 3.2.1 with ASV 3.0 won't View Source Posted by: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@... neumannandreas Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:02 pm (PST) Hi Ken

[svg-developers] Re: Safari 3.2.1 with ASV 3.0 won't View Source

2008-12-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Ken, It is true that the regular Safari release doesn't do SMIL yet. However, the Webkit nightlies (the base of future Safari versions) already does SMIL. It is not yet fully complete and tested (this is what the nightlies are for) but it is pretty good already. I invite you to download a

[svg-developers] Re: Safari 3.2.1 with ASV 3.0 won't View Source

2008-12-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
hm - why do you want to use ASV with Safari? Safari (Webkit) can do SVG natively. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Nellis nelli...@... wrote: Since I've updated to Safari 3.2.1 (Macintosh), I can no longer see SVG source through the context-sensitive menu option View

[svg-developers] Testing SMIL in Minefield

2008-12-11 Thread Andreas Neumann
According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216462 there should be SMIL enabled Firefox/Minefield builds around. However, I can't get SMIL to work. I wonder if anyone on this list could explain which builds contain SMIL support and how I activate it - I assume in about:config

[svg-developers] Re: Testing SMIL in Minefield

2008-12-11 Thread Andreas Neumann
However, I can't get SMIL to work. I wonder if anyone on this list could explain which builds contain SMIL support and how I activate it - I assume in about:config somehow? You really need to build it yourself at the moment. I don't think it needs activating beyond that. hm - I

[svg-developers] Use of SVG for map production in map.search.ch

2008-11-20 Thread Andreas Neumann
Some information for GIS/carto people: map.search.ch is the biggest mapping website in Switzerland, with more users than Google-maps Switzerland. Approx. 3-4 million out of 7 million people in Switzerland are using map.search.ch. One of its nice features is its integration of public transport

[svg-developers] Re: How to convert TTF Fonts to SVG

2008-11-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, there is a very powerful (but not very pretty) open source font editor available at http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Among many other formats it also supports SVG fonts and even generates the kerning tables. It works fine on Mac and Linux but is a bit complicated to install on Windows,

[svg-developers] Re: svg on webserver

2008-11-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
yes, it is almost certainly a mime-type issue: see http://wiki.svg.org/MIME_Type for additional infos. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, veiko herne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you configured the server mimetype for SVG (SVGZ) files? Veiko http://veikoh.wordpress.com

[svg-developers] Re: A full SVG 1.1 spec editor

2008-11-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, there is no SVG editor available that supports all features of SVG 1.1 full. Usually you have to work in combinations of a static graphical editor (e.g. inkscape, Corel or Illustrator) and animation editor (e.g. the Inkscape animator), a text or XML editor and font-tools, such as

[svg-developers] Re: new SVG Editor

2008-11-04 Thread Andreas Neumann
hm - I don't see anything - except an empty box saying Plugin content Is this built on some browser plugin not available on my computer? Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Tiago Cardoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, We at inEvo (http://inevo.pt) are developing a SVG

[svg-developers] Re: new SVG Editor

2008-11-04 Thread Andreas Neumann
ah - thanks. I need to view it at my home computer then. Our IT people don't allow the installation of browser plugins. Will have a look at it at home then. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Tiago Cardoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just a flash video from vimeo. Try to

[svg-developers] Re: Validating Compound or WICD documents

2008-10-31 Thread Andreas Neumann
Thank you Christophe and David for your explanations. OxygenXML seems to work find with the XHTML/SVG/MathML DTD provided at http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG/ As explained, I used this doctype: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN

[svg-developers] Re: SVG Horizontal scroll

2008-10-31 Thread Andreas Neumann
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/gui/scrollbar/ with an example http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/gui/scrollbar/index.svg Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, pcr_reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All Please Can any one help me to implement Horizontal scroll in svg. Vertical

[svg-developers] Validating Compound or WICD documents

2008-10-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, This is a question towards the multinamespace experts: If I have a compound document (e.g. XHTML, SVG, MathML) - how can I validate these documents properly. Is there a RelaxNG available to cover all these vocabularies in a single document? My preferred XML environment is currently

[svg-developers] Dutch 5-Euro coin designed with free software

2008-10-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
This is a little off-topic - not directly related to SVG - but I liked it: the dutch ministry of finance did a coin-design competition and the winning coin design was completely done with free software: ubuntu, python, inkscape, gimp, etc. See the full story at

[svg-developers] Re: other things you might not have the time for

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi David, not sure I fully understand your requirement. Are you looking for a progressive drawing of a path geometry? If yes, you can do this by animating the stroke-dash of a path. Here are 2 examples: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/animated_bustrack.shtml and

[svg-developers] Re: Opera 9.6, any new SVG support?

2008-10-16 Thread Andreas Neumann
Thank you Erik for the information. Editable text is a very useful feature. I hope that other web browsers will follow soon. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Erik Dahlström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:32:40 +0200, Andreas Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[svg-developers] Opera 9.6, any new SVG support?

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, This is more a question towards Erik or Chaals. I wonder if there is some new SVG support or SVG related improvements in Opera 9.6. Thanks for any information, Andreas - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit

[svg-developers] Re: Multi-line editable text area

2008-10-08 Thread Andreas Neumann
well - it is a little bit more than zero ;-) Opera 9.5x implements editable text and also textareas. To do the whole thing for other browser with javascript is quite complicated. I did a textbox widgets (only one line) - and this was already very complicated. However, you may consider (at

[svg-developers] FakeSmile: SVGSVGElement.pauseAnimations(), SVGSVGElement.unpauseAnimations()

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi David, I wonder how complicated it would be to implement SVGSVGElement.pauseAnimations() and .unpauseAnimations() in FakeSmile? Can you estimate if this can be implemented in a reasonable amount of time? Thanks a lot, Andreas - To unsubscribe

[svg-developers] FakeSmile: addEventListener load does not work

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi David, It appears that the last line in FakeSmile window.addEventListener(load, initSMIL, false); does not work in ASV/IE6. This is not a big problem for me. I just added a try/catch statement (below) around the last line. ASV supports SMIL anyway, so it is not a problem.

[svg-developers] Re: Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Additivity is the next feature I want to be working on. But the solution I imagine requires a big refactoring of the code. So, I have to gather courage and time. cool - thanks for considering it That said, workarounds exist : You can use nested g's and dispatch the animations to them. the

[svg-developers] Re: Hey you all. Just

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Tim, there is no single best authoring environment for SVG. I currently use gedit with sveral plugins, OxygenXML, Opera dragonfly and the Mozilla developer tools. Just today, Webkit also announced enhanced web developer tools in Webkit (http://webkit.org/blog/). Apache Batik also has a

[svg-developers] FakeSmile: SMIL events now suppor, was: Re: Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi David, This is great. This makes my current SMIL based project work just fine in Firefox without having to do any changes in my code. I can confirm that the beginEvent, endEvent, repeatEvent now works, with the restrictions named by David. For the current project I don't need the evt/event

[svg-developers] Re: Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Thank you for the hint. http://www.codedread.com/svgtest.svg is a useful page. Switches seem to work with feature strings in ASV/IE, but it seems that it is not supported to query feature strings using the DOM. It neither works with the 1.0 features strings, nor with the 1.1 features strings. I

[svg-developers] Re: TTF-Font

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
yes, SVG fonts would be useful for the more exotic fonts. Fontforge is a free unix/macosx tool to convert various font-formats, including SVG fonts. Opera, Batik and Webkit support external SVG fonts defined in an external file. The Adobe SVG viewer 3 only supports internal SVG fonts, Firefox

[svg-developers] Re: TTF-Font

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
that they implement SVG fonts in Firefox 3.2 or whatever comes after 3.1. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Hago Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Neumann schrieb: ... Firefox doesn't support SVG fonts at all, currently. Yes, I noticed in the meanwhile, that Firefox

[svg-developers] Re: IE woes: reload does not work

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Bruce, I just installed Fiddler. It is a nice tool. I did not know it. Thank you for the hint! I was able to solve the issue partially. It has to do with caching. It seems that IE6/ASV and caching does not work fine - at least not on my Windows2000 system. I configured Apache2 to send a

[svg-developers] IE woes: reload does not work

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi IE specialists (if there are any on this list), This refers to IE and the Adobe SVG viewer version 3. I tested on IE 6 (Win2K). I have a couple of SVG projects which involve scripting. They work fine when I first load the file. On the second (or any subsequent) page loads the scripts don't

[svg-developers] Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, I wonder how I can detect with Javascript whether a browser implements SMIL or not. I know that fakesmil can detect it but I couldn't figure out how it does it. I want to write some scripts which only apply if a browser cannot do SMIL natively. Andreas

[svg-developers] Re: Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
perfect - Thank you for your very quick answer! Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, David Leunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andreas, I wonder how I can detect with Javascript whether a browser implements SMIL or not. You can test this :

[svg-developers] Re: Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
it seems like our friends at Adobe did not implement the feature testing ;-( There really should be a solution for these IE SVG problems ... Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, David Leunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andreas, I wonder how I can detect with Javascript

[svg-developers] Re: Detect SMIL presence with Javascript

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
really ? I'm surprised. Maybe with the SVG 1.0 feature string : org.w3c.svg.animation See http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/feature.html for more info. hm - I tried document.implementation.hasFeature(org.w3c.svg.animation,1.0) and ASV returns false. Is this the correct way to test feature strings

[svg-developers] Re: IE woes: reload does not work

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
can you reload http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/ two or multiple times and it always works? Andreas I've never seen that problem using IE6 and IE7 quite a bit. In fact in IE7/ASV3.03 I can't replicate your problem with the file you mention. I'm still running Windows XP though.

[svg-developers] Re: IE woes: reload does not work

2008-10-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
I am on Windows2000 - my employer will move to Windows XP later this year. At home I don't have Windows. Most of our applications (GIS, CAD, customized Apps from smaller vendors, etc.) doesn't work on Vista. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Samuel Dagan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[svg-developers] Re: Fw: SVG SMIL in Mozilla

2008-10-01 Thread Andreas Neumann
hm - too bad. Let's hope that FF 3.2 is not too far away. SVG fonts and SMIL are the main missing SVG features in Firefox. Andreas Looks like it will not make it.. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi#c104 Sorry.. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216462#c104 Bruce

[svg-developers] Re: Fw: SVG SMIL in Mozilla

2008-09-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
cool. Does this mean that we will get SMIL in Firefox 3.1? Do you know when the nightlies will support SMIL? The current nightlies (latest-trunk) don't. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Cameron McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Forwarded message from Karl Dubost

[svg-developers] web fonts and SVG

2008-09-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, I am wondering if Firefox 3.1 and Opera 9.6 will support web fonts? Means externally linked ttf files that can be used in CSS and SVG? see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten It seems that currently Webkit is the only browser supporting those web fonts. I wonder if this would

[svg-developers] Re: Proposal: A standard SVG test suite

2008-09-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi John, Are you aware of the testsuites that W3C provides? You can find them at http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/Overview.html for SVG 1.2 Tiny and SVG 1.1 Full. While they do not test every single aspect of the testsuite (this would require thousands of tests), they do test many

[svg-developers] Re: Slow updates with setTextcontentc

2008-09-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, I agree that this question should be best asked at the Batik mailinglist. If it takes 20 secs to update 100 text elements then there is something seriously wrong in your application. Either you are running at the memory limit (per default Java apps only get 64MB of memory) or there is

[svg-developers] Question on HTML/SVG interop regarding javascript

2008-09-11 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi all, I have a javascript related problem/question: Given the following situation: * HTML file with Javascript and embedded SVG file, some global variable declarations * Embedded SVG with Javascript, some global variable declarations, lets say I have a var definition in the SVG context like

[svg-developers] Re: Question on HTML/SVG interop regarding javascript

2008-09-11 Thread Andreas Neumann
, but since that reference hasn't been fixed yet you'll have to wade through some funky characters and some even funkier formatting. David - Original Message - From: Andreas Neumann To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:14 AM Subject: [svg

[svg-developers] Tim Berners Lee on the missing SVG support in Internet Explorer

2008-09-11 Thread Andreas Neumann
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26646919/ and on thousands of other newspaper sites (if you google for Tim Berners-Lee Flaw in Internet Explorer If only he could have acted earlier ... but better late than never! Andreas - To unsubscribe send a message

[svg-developers] Re: Right-click menus in SVG

2008-09-10 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi JCT, You can use evt.preventDefault(); at the end of the function that is triggered by the event to suppress the default context menu of the browser. You'd have to write the right-click context-menu yourself then. Maybe someone could write a wrapper around the various implementations of

[svg-developers] SVG in your TV

2008-09-10 Thread Andreas Neumann
SVG may soon be present in your TV: This may be old news, but I still post it here: http://www.dreampark.com/390.html and Cabot's presentation at the SVG Open: http://www.svgopen.org/2008/papers/75- SVG_a_key_element_in_achieving_product_differentiation__competitive_advantage_in_the_DVB_market/

[svg-developers] Re: Negative Coordinates?

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi John, I agree that Opera 9.5 is currently the best browser based SVG implementation. But Webkit/Safari and Firefox are catching up quickly. Firefox has fallen a bit behind, but FF3 is a huge improvement over FF2. The main lacking features are SVG fonts support and SMIL animation. Negative

[svg-developers] SVG Open 2009 in California?

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi SVG developers, After a successful SVG Open 2008 conference in Nuremberg, Germany, we are looking into organizing SVG Open 2009. Several people have suggested to hold it in California, USA. We are currently investigating the options. Nothing decided yet. We are also looking for people who

[svg-developers] Google Chrome - SVG support?

2008-09-02 Thread Andreas Neumann
Anyone know anything about the SVG support in Google Chrome? Given that its using Webkit as rendering engine, chances are high that it supports SVG out of the box. I only hope they did not fork the project but continue to use Webkit. This would avoid having to test yet another browser against

[svg-developers] Re: Google Chrome - SVG support?

2008-09-02 Thread Andreas Neumann
I am using it now. It does support SVG but seems to be an earlier version of WebKit. There is no animation support. It appears some of the new JavaScript engine needs work - my map controls don't always work. Overall it is pretty solid but is is definitely a beta. yes - just checked

[svg-developers] Re: A question on IE browser

2008-08-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
I want to thank everyone who answered my question. I believe that svg will not fall. Your answers consolidate my confidence on this great piece of software. Wherever possible, I will add svg files to my web pages. Thanks again. yes - I think it is time to put more SVG on the web.

[svg-developers] Re: A question on IE browser

2008-08-29 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Fulio, It would be certainly good to advise your visitors/customers to use an SVG enabled browser. At the current time, Opera is the best SVG enabled browser, but Webkit/Safari and Mozilla are catching up. At SVG Open conference, just recently held in Nuremberg, the lack of SVG support

[svg-developers] Re: A question on IE browser

2008-08-29 Thread Andreas Neumann
yes - I agree we can't know if they implement SVG natively or not. But it is increasingly obvious that the other three browsers build up pressure on Microsoft regarding SVG. At the SVG Open last week all three browser projects (Opera, Webkit and Mozilla) had some presence and confirmed that

[svg-developers] Re: Anyone going to SVG developer’s conference?

2008-08-20 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Veiko, If you want to send me a poster (pdf or SVG) I can hang it up in the exhibition part of the conference. At least this allows you to publish the URL and background information on the project so that people can try your clips on SVG enabled phones. Andreas --- In

[svg-developers] Looking for SVG Open 2009 organizers

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Neumann
Dear SVG Open developers, We are looking for organizers of the SVG Open 2009 and 2010 conference. We summarized some information on the conference itself and how to submit a bid at http://www.svgopen.org/organizer_faq.html Should you be at the SVG Open 2008 in Nuremberg there is an

[svg-developers] Re: Software implementing getURL() function

2008-07-29 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Julien, getUrl/postUrl are supported in: * the Adobe SVG Viewer * Apache Batik * the Bitflash mobile SVG viewer * Ikivo mobile SVG Player * eSVG (http://esvg.ultimodule.com/bin/esvg/templates/default.asp? _resolutionfile=templatespath|default.asparea_3=pages/features) Browsers typically

[svg-developers] Re: Coverting ESRI attibute tables to SVG

2008-07-22 Thread Andreas Neumann
in the same directory or in a directory specified in the PATH variable. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Neumann a.neumann@ wrote: Hi, I assume you mean geometry AND attributes? There are several options, depending on what you want. For a ready-to-use SVG

[svg-developers] Re: Coverting ESRI attibute tables to SVG

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, I assume you mean geometry AND attributes? There are several options, depending on what you want. For a ready-to-use SVG application made from shapefiles, you could use MapViewSVG or InstantAtlas - which creates interactive web- applications: http://www.mapviewsvg.com/ or http://

[svg-developers] Re: Need SVG content

2008-07-12 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Ravikiran, audio/ and video/ is quite new in SVG and you probably won't find much content currently. But for all of 1-4 you'll find examples in the SVG 1.2 Tiny testsuite: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/ For 3 you will find tons of examples on the web. Andreas 1. SVG content having

[svg-developers] Re: How to test if two objects overlap?

2008-02-21 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, as far as I know, this is currently not possible without parsing the geometry and doing the intersection by script. The only thing SVG and the DOM currently offers is testing of the intersection or enclosing of a rectangle and SVG elements (shapes), using the DOM methods:

[svg-developers] Re: Querry regarding dynamic placing of text?

2008-02-21 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, see http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/ manipulating_svg_with_dom_ecmascript/index.shtml Example 6 shows how to create new text elements. You can use variables in all attributes and the text content. All you need to do is create the loop around it. Hope this helps, Andreas --- In

[svg-developers] Re: my final year project in SVG ,AJAX,RIA

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
hm - thats quite an ambitious goal to mimic CorelDraw, Inkscape and Illustrator in SVG. These are big drawing apps that where big corporations (or projects in case of Inkscape) spent multiple men- year of development. Don't expect any miracles from SVG, it would be a lot of work to mimic those

[svg-developers] Re: tip for parseXML and FireFox3 and IE+ASV3

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, Yes, FF3 supports patterns now, so does Opera9 and Safari. I really recommend not only testing with FF3, but also with Opera and Safari. Yes, Opera supports HTML-SVG communication. It should work the same as with FF and Safari. parseXML: there is a function called serializeNode() at

[svg-developers] Firefox 3 - please give the SVG part testing

2008-02-13 Thread Andreas Neumann
With Firefox 3, beta 3 released - may I remind the SVG developers to give it some thorough testing? Please test your own examples and report problems to the Mozilla bugtracker (https:// bugzilla.mozilla.org/) Thanks a lot, Andreas - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[svg-developers] Re: postURL doesn't work in FF2 +ASV 6

2008-02-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Rodolfo, ASV6 was never properly tested and there are known issues with Firefox. Firefox, however, has its own native SVG support and Firefox3 (soon to be released) has improved in SVG substantially. So I really recommend not relying on ASV for Firefox. In Opera, Safari and Firefox you

[svg-developers] Re: Wavy line symbol in SVG

2008-02-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Erik and others, I tried the method with text on path. However, in Opera, I don't see any difference at all when using method=stretch when compared to method=align. Anything I am doing wrong? Here is my file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN

[svg-developers] Re: Pretty printer for Windows, Batik

2008-02-04 Thread Andreas Neumann
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Neumann neumann@ wrote: Hi Frank, This is a very good idea. Could you describe this technique in more detail, either on the Batik wikie, the SVG wiki or on your own website/blog? I'd be interested to use this or propose

[svg-developers] Re: Pretty printer for Windows

2008-01-22 Thread Andreas Neumann
Batiks pretty printer works fine on Windows and is actually easy to use: java -jar batik-svgpp.jar [OPTIONS] FILES See http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/tools/pretty-printer.html Installing the Batik binaries is as easy as unzipping a zip archive, assuming you already have a java runtime

[svg-developers] Re: Pretty printer for Windows, Batik

2008-01-22 Thread Andreas Neumann
to advocate against using Batik. It's just not as self- explanatory as we are used to from windows applications. Still easy to use, but not the kind of easy which non-savvy users need no help with. Regards Frank --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Neumann neumann@ wrote

[svg-developers] Re: GML to SVG...coordinates to pixels

2008-01-21 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, your question can't be answered in general. Depending on the accuracy of the input data and the envisaged accuracy in the output (presentation) data, it might be useful to reduce the accuracy by rounding to fewer digits after the comma. But one has to experiment to avoid visible

[svg-developers] Change reference to external CSS file per script

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi all, I have an example at http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/loadCss.svg where I use javascript to change the reference to an external CSS file by removing and creating a processingInstruction and appending it before the root element. This works fine in Firefox and Batik, but fails in Opera

[svg-developers] Re: Heads Up for SVG Open 2008!

2008-01-04 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Doug and others, thanks for the pre-announcement. The conference will be in Nuremberg, Germany and the date will be the last week of August. More information soon on the SVG Open website. I'll encourage past and potential SVG Open attendees to provide feedback and input on what they want

[svg-developers] Re: Heads Up for SVG Open 2008!

2008-01-04 Thread Andreas Neumann
Thanks for your suggestion, David! There will be a SVG wow session as always. In 2007 we had Erik Dahlströms presentation Quick recipes for SVG Wow! (http:// www.svgopen.org/2007/papers/abstract3/index.html) - I just saw that the links are broken. I will look into the broken links on the

[svg-developers] Re: Opera/Firefox performance

2008-01-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hello, In my experience, Opera, Firefox and Safari are good enough for web- mapping applications. You can see one example at http://www.carto.net/ williams/yosemite/ - which probably has similar filesizes like yours or even bigger. Firefox2 is rather slow, but Firefox 3 is much better. Safari

[svg-developers] Re: update on status of textArea widget

2008-01-03 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Jake, What do you mean by multi-line textArea widget? Do you mean editable text or just multiline textflow. Editable multiline text in SVG with scripting is very complicated. Just textflow itself can be done. See: http://www.carto.net/papers/ svg/textFlow/ and

[svg-developers] Re: Adobe SVG Plug in for Solaris 8?

2007-12-13 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, I wouldn't recommend the Adobe SVG viewer on Linux and Unix. It was only a alpha-pre-release and never went through QA. Depending on the features you need I recommend Opera, Batik or Mozilla. Given that Java is well supported on Solaris, why don't you try Batik? Batik SVN version supports

[svg-developers] Re: compressed external js with FF3?

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
it works fine for me. I tested with Apache on-the-fly gzip compression (mod_deflate). If you use the Live HTTP Header extension with firefox and point the firefox browser to http:// www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/navigation.js you can see that this file is actually gzip-encoded

[svg-developers] Re: Problems with running Javascript in Batik Squiggle

2007-10-29 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Tony, does your file work in other browsers like Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc? the Adobe viewer was very forgiving when users used non-standard javascript/DOM methods. Other viewers are not. There might be some issues when trying to run SVG files specifically designed for the Adobe viewer.

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