Hi D_L, Hi Derry,

Sure beats the blazes out of Batik-Cocoon!!! Great stuff D_L .
NOTE: This does not contain a .png or .jpg file; it is all SVG! From Web Engine/SodiPodi:

Black Imaged Font: "Calligraphy"

(straight SVG for thee Opera or SlimBrowser users.) 800x600
http://members.shaw.ca/rcswebby/AnSVGPge.svg

(embedded SVG)
http://members.shaw.ca/rcswebby/AnSVGPgh.html

Cheers,

Muzz

Hi Derry,

I show this to you to make two simple points: SVG is the means to animation; and is so much more important in and of itself than animation that I don't know how to measure it.

You have just lost a share of the SVG market to "sodipodi." HTML may be popular; but so were the dinosaurs in their day.

Until the vendors show the browsers that they are serious about SVG, nothing is going to change. Two of the top four most highly rated browsers can display .svg directly regardless of the ISP mime type -- and SlimBrowser is rated one of the top four in features along with IE, Mozilla, and Opera.

I have waited a long time for this; I am just sorry that VM only played 2/3s of the role in it.

800x600: Opera and Slimbrowser:
http://members.shaw.ca/rcswebby/wesodiva.svg

800x600: Above and IE
http://members.shaw.ca/rcswebby/wesodivh.html

Muzz

[This message was edited by RC on September 22, 2003 at 09:44 AM.]

Hi Muzz,

Glad to hear that you found a combination of products that work for you.

- Derry

RC

glad you got it working .. I viewed the SVG source in my browser ..

you might dig into why the sodipodi SVG docbase .. see below .. refers to your PC internal files .. that does not look right ... I guess it arises from you publishing the sodipodi SVG to your PC .. then cutting and pasting code into webengine .. so you might have to set the sodipodi docbase to be the same as the webengine docbase ..

D_L

 <svg
   id="svg548"
   sodipodi:version="0.31.1win"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
   width="210mm"
   height="297mm"
   sodipodi:docbase="C:\Program Files\Virtual Mechanics\IMS Web Engine V2\MySite\RCSWebby"
   sodipodi:docname="C:\Program Files\Virtual Mechanics\IMS Web Engine V2\MySite\RCSWebby\AnSVGPge.svg">

etc. etc.

 

Hi Derry,

I shall spare you the reasons, but I wasn't in a very good mood when I published my last few posts -- and it shows rather obviously. I gave VM a bit of a rough (though honest) "ride" for which I apologize.

Thanks for a class-act reply.

I have not forgetten either my promises concerning the Vertex Editor; nor my promises of some sort of dissertation on "perspective.

I have also prepared an UltraPdf file which I end to e-mail you if I can find it again. It explains, implicitly, my interest in getting involved in documentation for MeeSoft a la Image Analyzer.

Cheers,
Muzz

Muzz

Hi D_L,

I couldn't determine how to get the sodipodi source code into Web Engine. So I published the WE .svg and .ims file; then made the modifications on the .svg file in sodipodi and uploaded with a separate FTP client. ... or something like that; I was pretty tired and it was all done in a rush.

I shall now approach it in a little more systematic and leisurely fashion.

Thanks again D_L,
Cheers,

Muzz

RC

found this sodipodi tutorial

D_L

Thanks D_L,

It's bookmarked; will get to it later. FASciNAting INdeed.

Cheers,

Muzz