SVG Based GUI
hi, is it possible to create GUI framework that is totally based on SVG and not on OS's native graphics controls?
like Form/application design -> SVG renderer library -> UI. NOT Form/app deisgn -> Native Controls -> SVG renderer -> UI.
like Form/application design -> SVG renderer library -> UI. NOT Form/app deisgn -> Native Controls -> SVG renderer -> UI.
In a way, it has been done before, with a far saner approach:
i mean, if you wrtire a renderer for specific purpose you could use direct syntaxing other than css/dom model right? even theoritically?
https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2
There's also the web's (horrible) tendency to make a diarrhea of special-purpose tags and attributes--many of which could be subsumed by basic turing-completeness. Compare this to postscript, which was a relatively simple stack machine to begin with.
And of course, if we start special-purposing things, we're no longer compliant with the standard, and it would be chaos to call it SVG at that point.
on second thaught if xml is used for encoding and declaration of a perticular drawing, then what is used to render actual svg? is this again going on OS's graphical system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librsvg
Could just be that I'm a cross-platform guy, but it seems like most programs bypass the OS rasterization stack (rendering fonts/curves/polygons/etc. with open source libraries rather than native OS facilities, and sending the OS a finished bitmap). This choice probably addressed a mix of cross-platform consistency issues, as well as the lowest-common-denominator problem.