The coming of SVG

[Mike Kerner]

@mark  when possible, I think it's better to keep the vocabulary simpler or
more obvious in LC.  It's one of the benefits of the environment and the
tool - less mental effort around the tool and the language.  When possible,
I think it's better to make it obvious to non-nerds, which will also mean
it is more obvious to people who don't work with a particular feature
frequently.

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, hh via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Until now I saw it like that:
> <canvas>, <svg> and <picture> are HTML5 tags.
> And <canvas> and <svg> are different concepts. Roughly
>
> <svg> is more an XML-based vector graphics format,
> <canvas> is more an API for drawing on a bitmap surface.
>
> And <picture> is a container for an image at different sizes.
> [And, as James says, <frame> is also a (different) HTML container.]
>
> @Mark.
>
> But I think, the interesting thing is not the name (call it as you
> like it) but the direction of your path, the content of the object.
> Let's talk about that.
>
> Will it be possible to edit properties:
>
> Getting and setting the points of a graphic?
> Getting and setting the imagedata of a placed image?
> Getting and setting the specific data of an SVG?
>
> Can it be used for exactly one of the objects or also a mix of the
> three, say an SVGicon on top of an image?
>
> For example:
> A lot of people are not able to write SVG, they are simply copying
> out of programs like 'inkscape' and would like to paste the code
> into a property of the control. Will that be possible?
>
> Who if not you knows that most of this (except the SVG part) is
> already possible in LCB?
>
> For example my IconGrid widget has for each element
> * a paint property (color)
> * a text property (textsize, textfont settable)
> * an image property (image scalable)
> * a SVGIcon property (svg scalable).
>
> So, if you would extend the SVGIcon widget to a SVG_1.0 widget, we
> could have all that without the need for a new container.
>
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