On 11-08-2002, Jan Hidders wrote thusly :
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:29:49PM -0700, Michael R. Irwin wrote:
The sections on engineering and technology are not going to improve very fast until we have some type of easy graphics markup for at least diagrams.
You want editable graphcs? Good news. There is an open W3C standard for that, it's called SVG (scalable vector graphics), and it's in XML. We could probably integrate that by considering it as just another image format. You could even give it an edit screen if one wanted to edit it by hand, but the simplest would be to have people download it and edit it with an SVG editor and then re-upload it. As far as representing it goes, Mozilla is beginning to support it, there is a free Acrobat view/plug-in, but for other browsers we would have to convert it to PNG, and yes, svg2png exists. :-) There's even a Wiki about this: http://www.protocol7.com/svg-wiki/default.asp Why didn't we think of this before?
Yes, I like the idea. Is this the way to go for Wikipedia ? The developers team, please let us know.
Regards, kpjas