Interestingly enough, only an hour or so after submitting my proposal about server-side SVG, I see that xml.com has a week about SVG and SVG alone!
The first article is about converting XML data to a visual representation of it, something which I've been doing over and over. The author doesn't explore even a tenth of the possibilities (especially having several graphical views of the same data), but then that would be hard :) Eisenberg's article is less interesting as it's about creating a Java servlet (his book, SVG Essentials, is full of Perl code though). Antoine's column is, as usual, excellent (and you haven't seen the full drag code that does a lot more!).
This is very cool, kudos to them for such a week. World domination approaches, SWF must die.
In my LWP/HTML talk last year at The Perl Conference, I said that "all-SWF sites are a worst-case scenario for the Web". I really hope it never comes to pass. SWF is just binary dog food.
Random question: Are SVG files larger than comparable-content SWF files?
Re:SVG/Flash
darobin on 2002-02-28T18:40:42
SVG enforces that viewers must support gz. Thanks to that, the average SVG file is circa the same size or up to 30% smaller than the equivalent SWF file. The latter more often than not.
