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

Adam Megacz wrote:

>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
>>
Hmm...that falls into con #3, I think. ;-).  I would have thought that 
SVG not working would be a nitrogen blocker...no?

-Tupshin