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Re: SVG default wallpaper was: OMG!

 

Wow, nice job ;)

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 19:51, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Joseph, Mark and Otto,
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:52 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD,
> > what
> > works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather wide.
>
> Using testing and svg and python hacking I've put together a
> demonstration which works on the default lucid install:
>
> http://doctormo.org/2010/09/03/random-genetic-wallpaper/
>
> So I may have been too hasty with my initial concerns. I think so long
> as the svgs limits are known, it should be possible to do something even
> more interesting than what I have done here.
>
> Martin,
>
>
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I've been wondering for a while where all the SMIL stuff went to..
We have adobe flash, air, that silverthingy and some other stuff around, but
the standards are not being used, even though they provide such enormous
possiblities..

What about performance? Is this stuff not heavy on processing power?

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