Export to SVG

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'm really impressed by this project.  Is it still alive?

Ironically you use SVG to implement the editor, but you don't export to SVG
(that I could see).

Now that 3 of the 4 SVG browsers have SVG+SMIL implemented natively (and
Firefox 3.6 will have it), it would be great to be able to export the
animations/drawings as SVG+SMIL.

Is there a mailing list for this project?  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by codedr...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2009 at 9:22

[GoogleCodeExporter]

That's a good idea. Um.. I'm not sure if it's still alive. I haven't committed
anything for a really long time. It's a pretty old project, the last commit 
predates
svg-edit and even svgweb. It's a pretty painful thing to update this project 
after
all my platform-switches to and from linux and windows, and I've forgotten a lot
about it. But it's always been planned for it to continue.

SVG/SMIL export, I think was always on the roadmap, but like JavaFX and 
Silverlight,
never really implemented. Partly because it needs to convert from my format 
over to
SVG (SVG is just the rendering layer, there is an abstracted, cross-platform
JSON-based markup for use by the actual application to be more cross-browser
capable). So SVG isn't the language used to implement the editor, but rather, 
it's
_sometimes_ used to render the editor.

I'm very impressed by your svg-edit project. If it becomes better than 
OnlyPaths (the
editor that the ajax animator uses) and supports IE, then I could switch the 
project
over to using it.

As you said, the project is pretty much dead, so a mailing list wouldn't do much
would it?

Original comment by Antimatter15 on 14 Jul 2009 at 2:25

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi,

No, if the project is dead than a mailing list will not do much good :)

Actually I had eventual plans to do some light timeline/animation stuff 
eventually in
SVG-edit once more basic features are complete (rotation, gradient picking, path
editing).

Thanks for the information about OnlyPaths.  I didn't know that AjaxAnimator 
used
code from another project (other than ExtJS).  I find the history fascinating 
because:

RichDraw -> OnlyPaths -> AjaxAnimator

It seems like now is the time to start really focusing on SVG web applications
because support has become much stronger in the four main browsers and the IE 
team
has acknowledged that SVG is a likely candidate for IE9.

Anyway, thanks for the inspiration of AjaxAnimator! If you are up for 
contributing to
a relatively new codebase, please feel free to join SVG-edit and submit some 
patches!
We really need some rock star coders ;)

Cheers,
Jeff Schiller

Original comment by codedr...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2009 at 2:27