[sword-devel] SVG module (an idea)

[Tonny Kohar]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>
> In general SVG is supported wider and more standardly than HTML5.  I'm
> fairly sure that Cairo (GTK stack) supports it.  Qt supports it.
> WebKit supports it.  Almost certain Gecko/Firefox supports it.  That
> means it's likely already supported in BibleTime and Xiphos (if built
> with Xulrunner).  I think BPBible uses wxHTML which is rather pathetic
> - so I doubt it has support.  But wxWidgets might have SVG support
> outside of the HTML widget.  I'm certain Java has support for SVG
> images, even if the Java HTML widget does not.

Java does not have native/direct support for SVG yet, but you can use
Apache Batik for SVG Renderer.
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/index.html

And Apache Batik is one of the most complete SVG engine implementation.

> Due to the fact that SVG has been in the wild for almost 10 years,
> you're likely to find that SVG support is much stronger than HTML5
> support which has not finished its draft revision process yet.  So
> you're more likely to get SVG support in front ends than HTML5
> support.  In fact you'll find that
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#SVG_and_Microsoft_Internet_Explorer
> IE alone among the "major browsers" does not support SVG - there are
> even JavaScript libraries that support and render SVG images.
>

And for IE, in the past there were no support for SVG at all, however
IE9 (not released yet) will support SVG and not only support but also
provide hardware-accelerated SVG support

Cheers
Tonny Kohar
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