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

Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:42:58 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.widgets
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Adam Megacz wrote:

>Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
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>>and at the results of scaling it, it appears that the curves are done 
>>roughly pixel by pixel,
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>Er, so remind me again what the advantage of svg is?
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Umm...read the rest of what I said. Just because a first pass automated 
transformation isn't optimally scalable doesn't mean that future 
versions would have to be. My point is that (assuming svg works in 
core), that you could have a very painless transition to a format that 
would provide the possibility of incremental improvements in the future. 
Vector based UIs are the way of the future (microsoft is at least partly 
going there for longhorn, and for once I agree with them).

-Tupshin