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Did you read the post? One workgroup member was also an Inkscape developer, and was implementing the new features. Both tasks apparently fully unpaid. And then

Did you read the post? One workgroup member was also an Inkscape developer, and was implementing the new features. Both tasks apparently fully unpaid. And then the browser vendors come only afterwards telling that they weren't really interested in the first place.

guitarbill 10y ago
It's a fair point though: if the kind of experience to understand/implement the spec is workgroup member + Inkscape dev, then maybe it's too complicated for mass adoption.
rleigh 10y ago
I think part of what's missing here is libraries to render and convert SVG to other formats. It's no good having a feature in Inkscape which no other renderer yet implements. But if it was implemented in a library, which Inkscape and other tools could use, then it might drive adoption a bit faster. It pains me when I create a nice SVG in inkscape, and then librsvg, QtSVG or whatever are incapable of displaying it. Better tools and libraries are needed. Running inkscape from the command-line to generate PDF, PNG and other export formats is a fallback, but it's often impractical to do that. That type of conversion should be trivial with standard tools, but isn't yet.
- aidos 10y ago
  I like the librsvg approach of just supporting the important features. Then again, you can't do custom fonts (which is an issue for me) and I guess everybody has features they need / would like. librsvg can render into different backends via cairo. Maybe with a little more work the combination of them could form the library you're talking about? I definitely agree about having a good library. The way everything is deeply bound into inkscape is a real shame. And when you use something like chrome (blink) you kinda need the whole kitchen sink to make it work.
  - stuaxo 10y ago
    At a guess the reason it is minimal is because there wasn't much dev work on it for a long time. If other devs had turned up and added missing features they would have been added. Also; newer features like meshgradient haven't been in Cairo for very long. Afaict Features get added in unescape as its open source, a soft of neutral ground + with authoring capability and artists in the community making it easy to demo proposed patches.

guitarbill 10y ago

It's a fair point though: if the kind of experience to understand/implement the spec is workgroup member + Inkscape dev, then maybe it's too complicated for mass adoption.

rleigh 10y ago

I think part of what's missing here is libraries to render and convert SVG to other formats. It's no good having a feature in Inkscape which no other renderer yet implements. But if it was implemented in a library, which Inkscape and other tools could use, then it might drive adoption a bit faster. It pains me when I create a nice SVG in inkscape, and then librsvg, QtSVG or whatever are incapable of displaying it. Better tools and libraries are needed. Running inkscape from the command-line to generate PDF, PNG and other export formats is a fallback, but it's often impractical to do that. That type of conversion should be trivial with standard tools, but isn't yet.

aidos 10y ago
I like the librsvg approach of just supporting the important features. Then again, you can't do custom fonts (which is an issue for me) and I guess everybody has features they need / would like. librsvg can render into different backends via cairo. Maybe with a little more work the combination of them could form the library you're talking about? I definitely agree about having a good library. The way everything is deeply bound into inkscape is a real shame. And when you use something like chrome (blink) you kinda need the whole kitchen sink to make it work.
- stuaxo 10y ago
  At a guess the reason it is minimal is because there wasn't much dev work on it for a long time. If other devs had turned up and added missing features they would have been added. Also; newer features like meshgradient haven't been in Cairo for very long. Afaict Features get added in unescape as its open source, a soft of neutral ground + with authoring capability and artists in the community making it easy to demo proposed patches.