[oats-sig] mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....

On 13/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:

Steve,

tags and search, so far are text only.
so how about the end-users?
ie category icons enable them to initialise the authoring process.
they can then choose...

this requires category icons where possible:
this is non-trivial, and represents a steep learning process, with  
rich rewards....

regarding abc, not sure this is our concern...
it seems to me that one has no control over this in any case....

all the symbols in SVG are available as soon as you load them,
whether links to symbols, or the symbols.

the benefits of the use external reference aspect is I think agreed.
evidence of examples in the wild will present excellent reasons for  
implementing.
please comment/vote bugs etc...

cheers

Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
http://www.openicon.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764

On 13 May 2008, at 13:42, Steve Lee wrote:

> On 13/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> I used <symbol> and <use> and nested <SVG>
>> is this meant to be offlist?
>
> Whoops no sorry. Back on list.
>
>> would it be possible to publish the Mulberry SVGs in this format?
>> and originate the category icons, where feasible?
>
> I'm still not completely clear:
> a) where would they be used?
> b) how would they be used?
> c) who would use them?
>
> I see the need for categories in selecting icons, and that's done by
> tags and search on straight-street (though it shows bitmapped
> thumbnails) . However the symbols are not immediately available for
> direct use either interactively or in other applications as they have
> to be downloaded and unzipped (as does SVGZ).
>
> I'm toying with the idea of a RESTful web API for getting the SVG
> symbols and possibly collections as you suggest. Given good SVG
> support in the browser this should be achievable using <a> and <use>
> with non-local URI references (say).
>
> -- 
> Steve Lee
> --
> Open Source Assistive Technology Software
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