Re: [Bug-gnubg] html image export (3d)

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:53:20AM +0200, Øystein Johansen wrote
> >In theory it should be possible to have a blank board image and then add
> >the chequers, dice and cube to build up a position.  I was wondering if
> >people thought this was worth looking at further?
> 
> To be honest, I don't think it's worth the effort. The html-pages are 
> rendered 
> for screen display anyway, and the layout now is ok imo. I know the <div> tag 
> in html behaves a bit different on different browsers, so I think it will be 
> a 
> lot of effort to make it look good at all browsers, and the gain isn't much.
> 
> I would much rather have an SVG based export type. 
> http://www.w3c.org/Graphics/SVG/
> 
> SVG graphics can be scaled and it can look good at paper as well as on 
> screen. 
> Converting SVG to other formats will probably be easy, since it's a standard 
> w3c format.

The current html export has the advantage that it's readable in almost
any browser (including text based browsers such as lynx, but excluding
browsers for blind people). 

Heavy use of CSS will not work with browsers other than IE5, Mozilla,
and Opera.

Jørn

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