From kde-core-devel  Mon Aug 04 23:07:15 2008
From: Rafael =?iso-8859-15?q?Fern=E1ndez_L=F3pez?= <ereslibre () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:07:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Qt SVG renderer
Message-Id: <200808050107.18090.ereslibre () kde ! org>
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Hi,

> what would be useful is explaining, plainly and openly, *why* this is the
> case, even if the answer comes down to "we simply don't have enough reason
> to justify investing further in this technology" or "it would be too much
> work to do otherwise".

Yes, I agree on this.

> but simply repeating ad nauseum "only support SVG Tiny" is really not
> helpful to getting this conversation to a point where there is mutual
> understanding.

Actually, you can implement special features but still not supporting the S=
VG=20
spec fully. That would mean something like TinySVG + special features=20
(masking, filters...).

> personally, i'm interested in seeing things that aren't really part of SVG
> Tiny at all, such as being able to ask "which element is at this point in
> the svg", added to the API. this is an absolute *requirement* for doing
> useful things like SVG based on screen keyboard, and is completely doable
> with the current codebase.
>
> but if there is no appetite to extend QSvgRenderer at all (iow, it's in
> pure maintenance mode) then i probably need to know now so i can plan how
> we will work with or around QSvgRenderer in plasma.

Yes, I actually have thought several times about this. How could the svg=20
renderer on webkit help us ? Would be a doable (easy) way of stripping all =
the=20
css + js things, just letting the part that is important for us and=20
introducing it into kdelibs ?

Can we rely on a 3rd party library that renders SVG ?


Regards,
Rafael Fern=E1ndez L=F3pez.

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