Re: RFC: use svg for widgets instead of png/gif

Cons: SVG doesn't work yet.

Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> Just an idea, which I'd like to hear people's thoughts on. What if we 
> were to have no bitmaps in the xwt widgets. All buttons, etc., in the 
> core widget set could be implemented as SVG.
> 
> Pros:
> 1) Fully scalable vector based UI. Great for accessibility, etc.
> 2) No external dependencies...all UI specified in XML.
> 3) Interesting programmatic transformation possibilities (rotation, 
> color, etc)
> 
> Cons:
> 1) rendering overhead (addressable by caching rendered versions?)
> 2) additional widget development learning curve
> 3) unknown svg bugs/limitations in xwt core
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Tupshin
> 
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