To: "John Yin" <johnyin@anabas.com>
Subject: Re: Remarks on SVG. Please critique 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:15:15 PST."
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:51:18 -0500
From: Geoffrey Fox <fox@dirac.csit.fsu.edu>

So I am trying to distinguish
"Semantic" Meaning as in XML with tags for key concepts like <title> <author>
Rendering which is good but not of quality of Flash (XHTML or HTML)
High quality rendering where SVG as generalization of Flash good

Note SVG renders nicely but NOT good for editing as "automatic line breaks etc."
have already been done before SVG produced. HTML support editing 
e.g. Microsoft Web HTML exports (which includes some XML style tags and only
uses VML (aka SVG) for graphics, not for text) can be used as equivalent
to .doc format version

So we have different trade-offs with I think SVG best for our purposes

I agree totally on hybrid model -- Looking at SVG IMplementations
I think bitmap to SVG will be hard in general but we ought
to be able to do Adobe (trivial) and Microsoft (if my proposed
conversuon works) and later Macromedia when they adopt standard

Note there is a "secret" Flash to SVG converter and Macromedia
has put Flash format in "open" 
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open
 
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