Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG, is a World Wide Web Consortium standard that
is operating system independent.  Since CLAW is a thick binding, it quite is
possible that a good part of it could be hosted on a different technology
than Windows.  I might also note that in terms of address space the Web is
the default operating system and can even be used to manage the files on a
Windows system.  In fact, a large part of Microsoft's next operating system
is in XML.

Copied from W3C SVG site:
"SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical
applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and forms the core of
the current SVG developments. SVG 1.2 is the specification currently being
developed as is available in draft form (comments welcome). The SVG Mobile
Profiles: SVG Basic and SVG Tiny are targetted to resource-limited devices
and are part of the 3GPP platform for third generation mobile phones. SVG
Print is a set of guidelines to produce final-form documents in XML suitible
for archiving and printing. Read more about SVG." 

The following are NOT Windows!  Please notice that the amounts of money are
considerable.  A portable, reliable Ada implementation might be worth the
effort.

"2003-12-09: Sharp and BitFlash release SVG Mobile handsets
Sharp Electronics and BitFlash have teamed to release a SVG Tiny handset in
Japan. They also provide a document conversion tool, allowing Word, PDF and
Powerpoint documents to be transcoded to SVG for display on the phone. More
information in the Sharp and BitFlash press releases."

"2003-12-08: libRSVG 2.5.0 available
The librsvg team have anounced a new release of the librsvg SVG rendering
library. This release fixes a lot of rendering bugs in order to enable near
perfect rendering of the Sodipodi flag collection and the
gnome-themes-extras SVG metathemes. People using SVG through the libRSVG
library, for instance with GNOME, are highly recommended to upgrade to this
release."

"2003-10-31: GEMoDe: an SVG Graphics Engine for Mobile Devices
The German research institute Fraunhofer IDG Rostock have announced GEMoDe,
a Java-based graphics engine that supports SVG. It supports interactivity,
and therefore can be used as a platform for developing applications. There
are some screenshots and a demonstration applet. The viewer is designed to
be easily adapted to resource limited devices such as mobile or smart
phones."

"2003-10-28: AOL purchases Viewpoint source for rendering images, including
SVG
AOL has purchased US$9M of source and US$ 1M of services from Viewpoint
Corporation. This gives them the ability to display and intermix video,
audio, 3-D and 2-D images in various formats including SVG. Since SVG 1.2
adds audio and video support, AOL would be well placed to implement SVG 1.2
should they see customer demand." 

"2003-10-27: Geosoft announces US$3M deal for SVG Mobiile GIS content
Geosoft announced a 3 million US dollar deal with MTI to supply SVG based
mapping data for deployment on cellular phones, PDAs and vehicle mapping
systems." 

"2003-10-20: Oracle and Corel integrate SVG tools with Oracle Database 10g
Oracle and Corel announced integration of the XML functionality in OracleR
Database 10g with Corel's XML and SVG tools, CorelR XMetaLR and CorelR Smart
Graphics Studio." 

"2003-10-17: Beatware announce Mobile SVG authoring with e-Picture Pro 4.0
Beatware announced e-Picture Pro 4.0 with authoring support for SVG Tiny,
SVG Basic, and SVG Full. The product is bundled with the BitFlash SVG Tiny
viewer so that content can be previewed on the desktop before deployment to
mobile clients. e-Picture Pro 4.0 runs on Windows platforms and a trial
version is availabe for download." 

Bob Leif
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:39:14 +0000 (UTC)
From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
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On 2004-01-20, Robert C. Leif <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
> technology like GtkAda or better yet CLAW to create the simplest version
of
> Scalable Vector Graphics or a thick binding to an existing version, such
as
> that available from Adobe. This could then serve as a foundation to host
> XForms. 

Why would we want to use a library that *only* works on one OS. I
thought the point was a *portable* library.


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