Vector Images and the SVGL stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Unless I misunderstand what Alejandro is doing, his work is able to run 
in v7 and earlier because it translates SVG elements into LC graphics. 
  He does a very good job of it, but SVG includes primitives beyond what 
LC offers.

We have ovals, lines, polygons, roundRects, and rects, but SVG also 
allows paths that can consist of straight lines, curves, and even Beiziers.

At a fixed size it's possible to use polygons for nicely-rendered 
emulation of SVG paths, as Alejandro has done, but at higher resolution 
(such as when printing) or if resized sufficiently large, any emulated 
path using elements not found in LC will show some jagged edges where 
true SVG rendering will remain smooth at any resolution.

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  Richard Gaskin
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Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Inversely, one could argue that if this can be done strictly with Livecode the way it is now, why do we need to make SVG support such a high priority?
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> Bob S
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> On Nov 7, 2015, at 08:41 , Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com<mailto:richmondmathewson at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> This is really super work: Mark Waddingham and Co. should "sit up and take notice".
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> Frankly, in the light of the fact that Alejandro can do this single-handedly I cannot help wondering
> why the LiveCode team seem to be having some sort of "problem" vis-a-vis SVG and the IDE right now.
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> Richmond.