[mapguide-users] RE: getting map image in svg format

[Edward Zimmerman]

I've been watching SVG developments for about the last four years.
Google on "svg is dead". You should find some sobering articles by some
of SVG's biggest evangelists.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: James Card [mailto:James.Card at calcad.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:16 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] RE: getting map image in svg format

Some might argue that SVG on the web will die unless Microsoft joins  
Mozilla and Opera in providing built-in support for it in the browser.  
There are some reasons Microsoft might want to let it die.

I noticed the sluggish performance as well (in Opera); that's one of the

reasons that I said there is much work to be done before it becomes a  
replacement for MapGuide 6.5 Viewer and other similar applications. Part

of the work will be done by the browser folks in further optimizing
their  
SVG/EcmaScript/DOM implementations, and part of it will have to be done
by  
the developers of web applications like MapGuide.

-- 
James Card
California CAD Solutions, Inc.
209 578-5580


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:00:05 -0800, Knight, Gregory  
<Gregory.Knight.bra at cityofboston.gov> wrote:

> I was thinking the same thing Jason...  In light of that, does SVG
have
> much of a future?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:26 PM
> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] RE: getting map image in svg format
>
>
> Hmm.  Me too.  It started out OK, but once I zoomed in it got really
> slow.
>
> I really like the idea of SVG, but I don't think that the Adobe plugin
> is a good long-term solution considering that Adobe has EOL'd it.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walt Welton-Lair
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 09:12
> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] RE: getting map image in svg format
>
> Same here.  Adobe SVG Viewer in IE was much more responsive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Traian Stanev
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 6:08 PM
> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] RE: getting map image in svg format
>
>
> Don't know how it is for you, but firefox 2.0 pretty much slows down
to
> a standstill on my computer when attempting to use this map.

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