RE: [cgmo-webcgm] My initial responses

["Bezaire, Benoit" <bbezaire@ptc.com>]

Hi Dave,

I find your answers fair. Maybe a few small clarifications:

3) Add: Opera claims to have good support for SVG, but doesn't seem to
have the popularity of Firefox. Firefox's SVG support is improving; but
SVG probably isn't their highest priority (may take a while). It's
believed that Apple has SVG support in Safari (Apple recently rejoined
the SVG working group), but no product has been released. As for IE;
Microsoft seems to be focusing on its own proprietary format.
 
6) SVG is the closest.

My answer for 8) would be different. I actually think that the fact it
is not XML does hurt. And I know Lofton will jump on this one; bring it
on :-P
Here is what I think, it's my personal opinion and doesn't speak to
PTC's position or Dieter's. 

One of the draw back of CGM is that it isn't well supported by artistic
drawing tools; and thus unknown to the typical graphics artist. This
will slow the growth of CGM. The fact that it is not XML does hurt. It
means that it can't be _easily_ hand written and it can't be generated
by a Web Service or XSLT. This also limits how CGM can be used in the
marketplace.

For 10), I agree but with respect to the niche market of technical
illustrations.

Regards,
Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Cruikshank, David W [mailto:david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:59 PM
To: CGM Open WebCGM TC
Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] My initial responses

Attached are my initial responses to the questions from Greg Schaap.
Let's build on them during the f2f meeting.

Thx...Dave
 <<schaap_responses.doc>> 

Technical Fellow - Graphics/Digital Data Interchange Boeing Commercial
Airplane 206.544.3560, fax 206.662.3734 david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com