There's a surprisingly simply way to rule out (or rule in?) DHTML that I've used in the past:
1) Do you need any shapes other than rectangular, that wouldn't be easily provided as static images 2) Do you need to draw vertical or diagonal lines connecting elements? If any of the above, you're better off looking at alternatives...but if not, you can do some very cool things with DHTML, CSS and absolute positioning. - Rick -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Neumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:28 AM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] Re: SVG vs ? in Enterprise Applications > I am in the process of designing/developing a Enterprise monitoring > system which tracks all of batch processes that run for a particular > organization and graphically displays job schedule information, > dependencies, current runtimes, etc. good decision! > My question is: is there some inherent limitations in current SVG > that prevent it from being used extensively for Enterprise web apps? no, I don't think there are inherent limitations. There are limitations but there are workarounds. One limitation is the high quality printing problem. A workaround would be to use a FOP processor to create a PDF from the dynamic SVGs. There are many FOP processors available (both commercial and open source) that can translate XSL-FO and SVG to PDF. Another limitation is the problem that the viewer is not installed on too many machines. But thats not a real problem. The users just need to install the plugin. The size argument does not count for me anymore. Every security update from MS, Apple and Linux is many times the size of the Adobe SVG viewer. And at times where people watch streaming Audio and Video, what does the size of 2.3 MB of the ASV plugin matter? > What other technology is the currently the favorite among such > applications? (Don't think flash is used a lot in this domain) I don't know - my guess is that Flash, Java, WebCGM are the alternatives. In the future for the windows platform we will see .net/XAML apps. But those are limited to MS only. > Let's say if someone did not know SVG, what would they develop the UI > in my hyperlink above with? probably Java or Flash. Some crazy people would write DHTML apps. Its amazing what you can do with dynamic divs and raster images ... > My request is: If you can give me examples on any such > implementations? (Non-cartography) http://www.wpsenergy.com/jayNick/default.asp has some very nice examples. http://www.hmaservice.com/svgdemo/ from Hyundai also has lots of nice examples I am sure there are more ... Andreas ----- 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 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://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
