GSoC19 CSS & JS support

Valentin Ionita <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Mar 2019 18:10:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel
Message-ID <CAHQU1VbS0+e1B1cxT393Rzg3nZKTPxTKaW2J=AXUGy6MPyaoOA@mail.gmail.com>
Hey, everyone, I am in need for advice from the developers around. As I
have stated several times already, I am looking to apply to Inkscape to
GSoC and in order to do that, I have already had a few PRs merged, on
translation, packaging and extensions.

Some things about me: I am experienced in web development and graphic
design and for about two years aware and excited about the open-source
community. I am consistently building up my skills and learning in order to
contribute from now on to projects that I find exciting and useful.
Inkscape is one of those projects, as I have repeatedly used the app to
learn design, create graphics and help communities with them.

As it us specified in SoC application template on the wiki, I want to
introduce my plans for contributing. I want to do mainly two things:
improve the CSS support and add JS polyfills. Why two? Because I am capable
and they're both in my skillsets. I believe these two are essential because
they can be expanded upon. If we get a way of polyfilling Inkscape-specific
functionality, I think it's the start for different mesh-gradients
development, animations and other 'imported' functionality from other
graphics software.


This might seem like a lot, especially because they are actually two
project ideas but I want you to understand my position. I am a workaholic
and I will contribute to Inkscape even if I don't get accepted. However, if
I get accepted, that would be an incentive to put in a lot more time into
it, making it my main summer activity.

As Moini suggested, I have forwarded this message to the mailing list. I'd
love some feedback from Tav

Have a great Hackfest!
Valentin Ionita @vanntile

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