- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 07:12:57 -0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
I've been looking over the SVG Tiny profile as part of a J2ME project and I have to admit finding myself questioning the name "Tiny". Once I sort through all the modularization, it feels like SVG Tiny was designed somewhat grudgingly, perhaps by SVG authors who wanted to make sure that as much of SVG as possible would still work on their cell phone. Paths can still include both Quadratic and Cubic Bezier curves (though elliptical arcs are out?). Four places of decimals are still permitted for coordinates. Animation is still in there, as is the use of JPEG images. None of these things is impossible to implement on a cell phone, sure. On the other hand, I have a hard time taking the "Tiny" designation seriously, as it doesn't look like anyone has yet asked what the smallest generally useful subset of SVG might be. I don't think the WG necessarily has to change the profiles, as this is a comment appearing after the CR phase is over, but I do suspect I'll be concocting my own and much smaller profile because SVG Tiny is still far more than is needed for a lot of problems. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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