Re: Article: How "Widgety" should SVG Get?

SVG should not get 'widgety' at all.  I think Kurt implies this with his 
assertions about the fundamental difference between SVG and things like 
XUL.  SVG defines primitives.  Widgets are made out of a combination of 
primitives.  For SVG to encompass widgets would be against the spirit of 
SVG itself, which is a schema representing the fundamental drawing 
primitives needed to create scalable vector graphics.  I don't see the 
word widget in Scalable Vector Graphics.  SVG is better off as it is - a 
standard that can be embedded in higher-level XML technologies like XUL, 
XAML, Vexi, Luxor, Thinlets, etc.

- Charlie

Gerald Bauer wrote:

>Hello,
>
>  Kurt Cagle (author of the Graphical Web) has written
>an article titled "How 'Widgety' should SVG Get?" that
>explores how SVG, XBL and XUL relate and differ.
>


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