[rfc-i] The problem is SVG-Tiny
Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Tue, 21 January 2020 15:50 UTC
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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:49:43 -0500
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Subject: [rfc-i] The problem is SVG-Tiny
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Looking at the responses, it appears that several things are being conflated: 1) The restriction prohibiting color in the diagrams. 2) The restrictions on the use of fonts. 3) The restriction to a subset of SVG-Tiny. It is the last that requires a massive amount of time and effort to support. I have read the posts on the list and the only technical responses I can find are from Brian complaining that the conversion is non trivial. I am not a slow coder by any stretch of the imagination, I have developed the most comprehensive converter so far and it is clearly a non trivial amount of work to complete it. The SVG-Tiny profile was being discussed back in 2002 when the mobile web was a very different place. The mobile web was crippleware. The operating assumption being that the mobile web would be a subset of the actual Web. That assumption was completely demolished in 2007 with the launch of the iPhone. SVG-Tiny was published in 2008 and has never received any appreciable level of support. The only product that supports SVG-Tiny native is Adobe Illustrator and that certainly isn't going to change. The only substantial use of profiles of SVG is in SVG fonts which represent a very different problem. There are really good performance reasons for not wanting your font description language to have multiple layers of inherited attributes, multiple coordinate systems, etc. SVG-Fonts is not intended to be a drawing spec. In 2014, when the decision was taken to use 'a profile' of SVG, it was stated that the decision could be re-opened later. Well that is exactly what I am doing now. I have code that shows this problem is seriously complex. If people want to challenge that assertion, let them demonstrate it with facts, not vague references to proof of their position that they haven't produced or endorsing the expert opinion of an unnamed person.
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- [rfc-i] The problem is SVG-Tiny Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [rfc-i] The problem is SVG-Tiny Michael Richardson
- Re: [rfc-i] The problem is SVG-Tiny Julian Reschke
- Re: [rfc-i] The problem is SVG-Tiny Michael Richardson