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

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 16-jun-2006, at 19:25, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> > 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.

We'll have to wait for that before we could use it. And I don't  
believe for a second that it will come close to bitmap formats.

> > 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,

Yes, it is.

> it's important that they be renderable on the widest range of  
> output devices as is possible.

And you think vector graphics fit that requirement better than bitmap  
graphics???

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