Peter/Henry, can you please comment on that? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:42:53 -0000 From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com> Reply-To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] Re: Re: SVG and Visio, XML and Office "Eugen Leitl" <eugen@leitl.org> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0212131125070.22354-100000@hydrogen.leitl.org...

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Now look at this: <atomArray>

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Breare, David wrote: - <atom id="a1"> <string builtin="elementType">C</string> <float builtin="x2">-2.8313</float> <float builtin="y2">0.3645</float> </atom>

Yes, it's a rather poor quality XML serialisation, seemingly designed to be as verbose as possible, perhaps a better serialisation would help, since there's a presumably perfectly good text format anyway, the only reason to go for XML is the free investment you get in parsers - is this really a key issue?

The resulting SVG from this is even more verbose.

You seem to be mistaking poor quality tools, for the technology itself.

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do not take a great deal of time to download, in fact, in many cases they can be smaller than their raster equivalent.

We're usually generating compressed b/w PNGs which tend to be pretty small. I will have to play around with SVG rendering over limited bandwidth to see how it renders.

The advantage of an svg view, would be the interactivity you could provide, animations, zoom etc. not the bandwidth, the bandwidth is likely to be higher than the PNG, however the SVG is likely to have advantages in many cases, I don't know enough of the uses of your application to suggest if it would be or not, but the reasons you've given, don't really stand up. Of course if the XML you have is the standard representation, then you have every right to complain vigourously to the developers of the vocabulary. Jim. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/CBxunD/vN2EAA/xGHJAA/1U_rlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)