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Time has come to revamp the web
Posted by chubbymoth apropos on Thu Apr 24th, 2008 at 07:46:46 BST
24-4-08
After several years of waiting for SVG to reach some maturity and decent interpreters I think the time has finally come to start using it as a designer. There are a lot of problems still to overcome as the situation currently reminds me of my first encounter with HTML v 2.0 in 1994 and the problems of the differences in interpretation by the various browsers.
SVG promises to finally open the web to the designer without any of the limitations a glorified content fot HTML format like Flash had nor the limitations posed by MS XAML. Platform independent design has finally reached the community and I expect great things to happen on the web due to that.
I regard SVG still to be at it's infancy, but at least it has some useability now that will allow me to finally create pixel precise and scalable content that can be browsed by search engines edited in an instant and use the full potential of AJAX. I was greatly impressed by the work on SVG Draw that I found at pilat.fr
Let's face it, SVG has some strong enemies in both Adobe that has devised a SVG parser and made it unusable by diverting from the standard while biding it's time to buy Macromedia and Microsoft that is going to try to hijack the Web with XAML where it failed to do so with HTML.
As soon as there are some truly impressive SVG sites to show on the web and tool to create content reach some level of maturity that make them truly useable to create interactive content I expect a true explosion of colour and interactivity on the web pages, that until now have always been rather primitive copies of newspapers.
SVG will allow the designer to concieve new ways of showing content and maintain a logical structure of interaction for his user interface that totally eludes the boundaries of the HTML page and the viewport we're so accustomed to.
This time I inted to be part of that revolution and will try to post on a regular basis.
My special thanks goes to Stefan Goessner and Michel Hirtzler, whom decided to give access to their very well and clear written book on e-learning some time ago that enabled a cheapscate like me to finally get some good information on how to produce and handle SVG.
It prevented me from having to buy loads of books on the topic of SVG that probably like their HTML counterparts would render a 1 in 10 useability. Apart from that few books have seen the light lately and the info found in them can be a bit outdated.
Tools I currently use are Opera, Firefox and yes MSIExploder. The former two because they're good, the latter one,.. ah well,.. you know why. Sight.
Apart from that I use Inkscape which with the 0.46 version has become a truly useable tool, notepad++, Scribus, OO and a host of trialware that remind me of the buggy days of old.
I'm looking forward to see the first Python driven SVG capable CMS as I think that would greatly improve the interaction with all the Python driven open source software.
If you happen to have the desire to create just that next best thing to Cheese, I'll gladly offer my services to create some smashing graphics and UI for it. More of a hacker than a coder though.
After several years of waiting for SVG to reach some maturity and decent interpreters I think the time has finally come to start using it as a designer. There are a lot of problems still to overcome as the situation currently reminds me of my first encounter with HTML v 2.0 in 1994 and the problems of the differences in interpretation by the various browsers.
SVG promises to finally open the web to the designer without any of the limitations a glorified content fot HTML format like Flash had nor the limitations posed by MS XAML. Platform independent design has finally reached the community and I expect great things to happen on the web due to that.
I regard SVG still to be at it's infancy, but at least it has some useability now that will allow me to finally create pixel precise and scalable content that can be browsed by search engines edited in an instant and use the full potential of AJAX. I was greatly impressed by the work on SVG Draw that I found at pilat.fr
Let's face it, SVG has some strong enemies in both Adobe that has devised a SVG parser and made it unusable by diverting from the standard while biding it's time to buy Macromedia and Microsoft that is going to try to hijack the Web with XAML where it failed to do so with HTML.
As soon as there are some truly impressive SVG sites to show on the web and tool to create content reach some level of maturity that make them truly useable to create interactive content I expect a true explosion of colour and interactivity on the web pages, that until now have always been rather primitive copies of newspapers.
SVG will allow the designer to concieve new ways of showing content and maintain a logical structure of interaction for his user interface that totally eludes the boundaries of the HTML page and the viewport we're so accustomed to.
This time I inted to be part of that revolution and will try to post on a regular basis.
My special thanks goes to Stefan Goessner and Michel Hirtzler, whom decided to give access to their very well and clear written book on e-learning some time ago that enabled a cheapscate like me to finally get some good information on how to produce and handle SVG.
It prevented me from having to buy loads of books on the topic of SVG that probably like their HTML counterparts would render a 1 in 10 useability. Apart from that few books have seen the light lately and the info found in them can be a bit outdated.
Tools I currently use are Opera, Firefox and yes MSIExploder. The former two because they're good, the latter one,.. ah well,.. you know why. Sight.
Apart from that I use Inkscape which with the 0.46 version has become a truly useable tool, notepad++, Scribus, OO and a host of trialware that remind me of the buggy days of old.
I'm looking forward to see the first Python driven SVG capable CMS as I think that would greatly improve the interaction with all the Python driven open source software.
If you happen to have the desire to create just that next best thing to Cheese, I'll gladly offer my services to create some smashing graphics and UI for it. More of a hacker than a coder though.
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