RE: [cgmo-webcgm] IE8 Beta 1

["Galt, Stuart A" <stuart.a.galt@boeing.com>]

Yes, and I don't think that it makes much sense to create an XML syntax for WebCGM.

 

- Stuart Galt.

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From: Bezaire, Benoit [mailto:bbezaire@ptc.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:15 PM
To: CGM Open WebCGM TC
Subject: RE: [cgmo-webcgm] IE8 Beta 1

We could do that, if WebCGM was an XML syntax, but it isn't.

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From: Galt, Stuart A [mailto:stuart.a.galt@boeing.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:04 PM
To: Bezaire, Benoit; CGM Open WebCGM TC
Subject: RE: [cgmo-webcgm] IE8 Beta 1

Hmm,  thank you for the link Benoit.  If I understand the whitepaper the new functionality allows you to

embed inline tags that are to be interpreted by a different processing agent.  The example in the paper

showed a simpler way of embedding a SVG image into the html stream. 

 

I think that we use the OBJECT tag in a slightly different way.  We use the tag to tie a CGM file (and

optionally an XCF) to the registered viewer application and not as a mechanism to pass tags to another

processing agent.  To use the new namespace functionality wouldn't we need to invent a new tag(s)

so that we could do something like:

 

<webcgm xmlns="webcgm" file="myImage.cgm" xcf="myXCFfile.xcf" />

 

--
Stuart Galt
SGML Resource Group
stuart.a.galt@boeing.com
(206) 544-3656

 

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From: Bezaire, Benoit [mailto:bbezaire@ptc.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:09 AM
To: CGM Open WebCGM TC
Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] IE8 Beta 1

Microsoft just released its first beta of IE (with improved namespace support), see:

 

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ie8whitepapers/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=573

 

It doesn't support SVG yet (who knows if it ever will), but it does remove the need for the <object> tag.

 

What does this mean (if anything) for WebCGM content embedded in HTML?

 

Benoit.