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?
-- Jan Hidders