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

Also we can use Houdini to render mesh gradients ;)

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En 14 jul. 2018 3:27, en 3:27, Jabier Arraiza <[email protected]> escribió:
>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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