Don:
All browsers already do.
http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm
It's a matter of time before someone couples this concept with SAJAX and creates streaming vector graphics in an ordinary (no plugins) browser... using simply JavaScript.
Video games in your browser will go far beyond this level:
http://www.def-logic.com/games.html
Get ready.
-Jared
p.s. sorry about the IE warning--IE's rendering engine is faster than Gecko (for this kind of work) at the present time, so they targeted it.
Jared wrote:
I think he means SVG, which is still nascent at best for most people. E.g. viewing
http://zenii.linux.org.uk/~ober/protos.html
is iffy at best on my system here at home (Linux). It's OK-but-not-great on Windows XP at work. Vector graphics in JavaScript is cool and all, but it doesn't come close to SVG's potential. Take filters, for example:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/filters.html#Introduction
I want my spectrally-highlighted, Gaussian-blurred, bouncing geometric shapes with gradient-filled text, and I want them NOW.
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jared wrote:
But then, I'm still waiting for the browser that renders vector graphics.
Wow, that is interesting. I sure hadn't thought of that. Complicated paths would be problematic, but a postscript to javascript converter might be possible someday, if the library wouldn't so massive to make the whole project unworkable. Oh well, I am constantly assured that the whole world will be on broadband by next Tuesday.
I also just discovered that you can parse the actual window size of the browser in javascript in addition to the screen resolution. I may need to re-think my approach in light of this, as my goal is to present pages for "optimal" viewing no matter what browser, window, OS, svreen resolution the viewer is using. Granted I'm quite a ways off from this, but I feel that it's the job of the web page to conform itself to the viewer's environment, rather than expecting the viewer to tailor his environment to the web page.
Regards,
-Don
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