thanks for information, tony<div><br></div><div>What I stress to my students initially is the strong underlying rationale for knowing more about SVGs. Some of the points I go over with them more than once are:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><ul>
<li>animations are fairly easy to achieve (SMIL or Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language is part of SVG)</li><li>it offers a path into some core web techniques and standards: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and SVG</li><li>
It's mathematical - both simple co-ordinate systems and more complex maths such as bezier curves. I like the fact that art can be done with maths</li><li>good free open source software is available, eg. <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none; ">inkscape</a></li>
<li>the small size (low bandwidth) and scalability of SVG graphics means they have a big future, eg. in the mobile phone industry<br></li><li>images are scalable</li></ul>There are some very interesting essays and SVG examples at this <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://dev.opera.com/articles/svg/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none; ">dev.opera page</a> (view these pages using Opera browser)</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">ie. I see a strong educational rationale for teaching more about SVGs (this first occurred to me when reading Tim Berners Lee's book "Weaving the Web"), but confess to my lack of success in persuading anyone else at all about this :-(</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">btw my year 10 students are enjoying the challenge to make their own icons to replace the XO icon - I'll be posting some of their icons soon</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:57 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:forster@ozonline.com.au">forster@ozonline.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">> > > Sugar uses librsvg to render all SVGs, I'm not sure which are the<br>
> > > capabilities of this library regarding animations.<br>
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<a href="http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.lib.librsvg.devel/2008-07/msg00003.html" target="_blank">http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.lib.librsvg.devel/2008-07/msg00003.html</a><br>
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"Animation is going to be a lot of work, and I'm not sure<br>
that I'd want it in librsvg. It's a very good, fast static SVG<br>
rendering library, and I'd like it to stay that way."<br>
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