Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca>]

> As far as I know, support for SVG or _any_ vector image format is much, much 
> less common than for bitmap formats such as PNG or GIF.

Yes, but SVG is catching up rapidly.  As a W3C standard, it *will* be 
widely implemented.

> So editing bitmaps is 
> fairly trivial with well-defined results. With vector formats, there is a 
> very complex one-way relationship between the file and what you see on the 
> screen so the ability to edit them requires much, much more complexity.

But we are describing an *archival* format.  It's not important that they 
be editable, it's important that they be renderable on the widest range of 
output devices as is possible.

--lyndon

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