On 13/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Buddy</b> <<a href="mailto:buddy.baars@gmail.com">buddy.baars@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/13/07, Emre Turkay <<a href="mailto:emreturkay@gmail.com">emreturkay@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 6/12/07, Tim Newsom <<a href="mailto:cephdon@gmail.com">cephdon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > This is where XAML or XUL are particularly suited.
<br>> > The idea is that the UI will be mostly svg commands or in some cases<br>> > images.. But rendered completely by the engine. Look up what you get<br>><br>> Loading the burden of SVG rendering to the run-time, for a very static
<br>> environment like a mobile platform (you don't plug a screen with a<br>> different resolution to your cell phone generally) IMHO not a very<br>> good idea. They may be vector graphics at the development phase but
<br>> they should be compiled (translated into bitmap) before deployed onto<br>> the real device.<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree totally about images. However, as I understand it the SVG spec is for far more than drawing pretty pictures. It also allows the embedding of these generated images.
<br><br>I was fingering SVG as a potential candidate to entirely separate the application UI from the back end (html/ajax has been suggested elsewhere but I think SVG would be far better)<br><br>If the application is then used on a different form factor device you can simply produce a new SVG file. All the UI script and images are linked to the SVG.
<br><br>This also gives us a nice separation of people who are good at making things look good and those of us who know the loop preconditions / postconditions without even thinking.<br><br>If openmoko is to deal with multiple different devices/resolutions this will be a key feature.
<br><br>-Pete<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> My motivation is, why should we decrease the performance to get the
<br>> same effects, both for UI eye-candy and usefulness?<br>><br>> emre<br>><br><br>SVG can be used for scaling with same resolution and the average<br>filesize will be very small<br><br>_______________________________________________
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