Re: [Inkscape-devel] Yesterday was SMIL and today is Mesh Gradients

One question if finally we have a polifill we can include it inside the SVG itself optionally?

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En 13 jul. 2018 20:52, en 20:52, Tavmjong Bah <[email protected]> escribió:
>On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 11:03 -0700, Victor Westmann wrote:
>> Hi Tavm
>> So should we encourage tutorials that use Mesh Gradients in Inkscape
>> and publicize them through our website?
>> 
>
>That would definitely help. The more people use meshes the better...
>but it won't help if they are ultimately rasterized (used as a PNG
>rather than an SVG) on the web. The browsers have "use" counters. We
>probably need to offer users the ability to add a JavaScript "polyfill"
>to their files that use meshes.
>
>
>> --Victor Westmann
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Tavmjong Bah <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 21:05 -0700, Victor Westmann wrote:
>> > > Hi fellow inkscapers,
>> > > I was amazed to read that inkscape already has Mesh Gradients
>> > > (since version 0.92) just like Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator got
>> > > this exact same feature in the version 8 (released in 1998). 20
>> > > years ago.
>> > > 
>> > > But it seems that Mesh Gradients will be removed from the SVG 2.0
>> > > specification. My question is WHY?
>> > 
>> > Nobody else has implemented the SVG version of mesh gradients.
>> > Adobe is interested but won't proceed until at least one browser
>> > has implemented it. Firefox was interested a few years ago. These
>> > things often depend on who is working on SVG at the moment.
>> > To remain in the final publication, there must be at least two
>> > independent implementations... with one being in a browser. The
>> > pragmatic solution to getting SVG 2 finalized was to push meshes
>> > (along with hatches) to SVG 2.1.
>> > > That made me really sad and wondering: isn't there anything we
>> > > can do to prevent that from happening? Can we make a petition or
>> > > talk to Mozilla/Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi browser so they can
>> > > implement this and this feature, as soon as it gets traction, to
>> > > be kept in the 2.0 spec of SVG technology?
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure a petition would have any effect at this point. SVG 2
>> > itself is in a precarious state. The working group is out of
>> > charter at the moment and it is not clear the charter will be
>> > reinstated. We are waiting to hear. A petition wouldn't hurt if it
>> > had enough signatures. Better would be to get lots of content on
>> > the web using meshes.
>> > > Ideas anyone? Is this too unrealistic or we can do something
>> > > about it?
>> > > 
>> > > I remember google chrome almost removed SMIL feature from Google
>> > > Chrome but then the feature got traction and started being used
>> > > more and more... so they kept it.
>> > 
>> > Actually, Google was using SMIL in one if its own products (the
>> > right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing).
>> > Tav
>> > 
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