Comments: XUL + SVG: A quick demo

You might like http://steltenpower.com/xbl and http://svg.startpagina.nl

Posted by stelt at May 3, 2006 3:53 PM

An answer other than "Why not?" is the possibility of exploring such ideas as seamlessly mixing graphics and text and images. For example, in this screenshot

http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/research/ideas/Breaking%20Windows/Map.png

we see how a textual spreadsheet-like formula is linked to a map through a line. Maps, normally shown as dead images, now carry semantics and support computations. The distance on the map needs not be named by a variable as in conventional programming languages; it can simply be linked from the map to wherever it is used.

Posted by David Huynh at May 3, 2006 3:56 PM

This may sound silly since I don't know XUL at all, but... XSLT?

(From Alex: Sorry, this is pretty useless for a chrome application. :-) )

Posted by ant at May 3, 2006 4:39 PM

Well this sounds like Bug #231179 (SVG images in CSS) which realy would rock if it would be implemeneted. ;)

(From Alex: Yep, only I'm cheating by not trying to load it as an image per se.)

Posted by Arpad Borsos at May 3, 2006 9:20 PM

I love this mixing of XML languages. My special interest is XForms: XForms+XHTML or XForms+SVG or XForms+XUL+SVG, etc. -- it's all XML, and you can do so many interesting things when mixing it.

Posted by Allan Beaufour at May 4, 2006 3:55 AM

Clicking on svg in a menu or button doesn't fire oncommand, so it's not usable yet.

(From Alex: That's not the point. The SVG is just artwork, and if I write the bindings right, it won't matter - the oncommand will still fire.)

Posted by Pete Kirkham at May 4, 2006 5:19 AM