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Libraries like this come up on HN on a regular basis it seems. As I read through the site I kept asking myself "this looks great and all, but can I depend on it
by teleclimber 13y ago
Libraries like this come up on HN on a regular basis it seems. As I read through the site I kept asking myself "this looks great and all, but can I depend on it in the long term?".
Then I came across the "about" section where it says it was created by the creator of Raphael.js[1].
Say no more.. I'm in!
[1] http://raphaeljs.com/ http://raphaeljs.com/
- danso 13y agoI came across the snapsvg announcement in a Tweet by the creator: https://twitter.com/DmitryBaranovsk/status/393052982893223937 https://twitter.com/DmitryBaranovsk/status/39305298289322393... > Here we go: new SVG library from Adobe by yours truly Snap.svg. Snapsvg.io I didn't know Dmitry was Raphael's creator nor that he was working for Adobe. So all I saw was "Adobe" and thought "Flash" and then, "Nah"
- teleclimber 13y agoI hear you on the Flash stigma, but you have to figure an open source library written in a widely used language to interact with an open standard that is largely adopted won't make you suffer the same as Flash?
- selmnoo 13y agoSuffer the same fate as Flash? The fate of sustaining comfortably for more than a good decade you mean?
- teleclimber 13y ago?? I never wrote "Suffer the same fate as Flash". Please reread my comment. I was referring to the previous poster's apparent pain with Flash. Not the fate of Flash itself.
- selmnoo 13y agoSorry then, I guess I picked up a subtext which you (or the grandparent post) did not intend.
- Already__Taken 13y agoAdobe seem to put out some pretty sweet HTML5 stuff. They know flash is going and are jumping on the next big thing in a healthy way. That IDE he's using in the video is called brackets[1] and it's originally from adobe. I'm watching it closely to jump from sublime to it. [1]: http://www.brackets.io/ http://www.brackets.io/
- ye 13y agoWhy not just release a new version of RaphaelJS and stop supporting anything before IE9? He now has two very similar (but not compatible) libraries to support. Raphaël.js is great, btw.
- quest88 13y agoI saw Dmitry's presentation yesterday over SnapSVG. Raphael was, and is, meant to support older browsers. This comes with a cost of not being able to fully use everything SVG has to offer. Thus, Snap was born. He simply can't put everything into raphael to make it compatible with older browsers. Raphael will still be getting bug fixes as the come in but is overall feature complete. In fact, Snap shares some of the same code raphael has, so maybe some bugs found in snap will be fixed in raphael as well.
- smrtinsert 13y agoHopefully it doesn't get acquired by Sencha as well. I'm done with all things Sencha.