DrawMatic comments on dojo.gfx hits svn head

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Gavin

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:52:49 PDT

The cumulatelabs.com demo is really slick -- I hope the creators will join in on the dojo.gfx (and upcoming dojo.gfx.editor) projects.

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by shelly

Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:04:51 PDT

Also check this out. Works in IE only for now www.cumulatelabs.com/draw

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Strass

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:08:12 PDT

As for the moment I have not enough time to investigate Comet, it's simply AJAX polling easily added thanks to Prototype. And, in fact I'm quite satisified about it. The network overhead is enough minimal to not really bothering me.

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Gavin

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:02:35 PDT

Hey, that's cool! What are you using for your network IO?

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Strass

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:14:34 PDT

I didn't find your email on your blog, so I post a comment here. I began to write a whiteboard application at the beginning of the month, purely SVG based at the beginning, and decided to switch to the new dojo.gfx API for the rendering. For the moment, it doesn't work in IE (as I have no windows computer, it's a little bit hard to debug with that beast), but I plan to improve that situation. In fact, it must work, as it seems that the element I'm using (just "Path" element) are supported in IE with the dojo.gfx API but I haven't found yet how to make it to work. Moreover, as my understanding of the Dojo and especially the dojo.gfx package will grow, the code will be clever. I'm not really satisfied by the current state, but, hey, it works. Here is the URL of the project : http://whiteboard.novelys.com/

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Gavin

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:36:39 PDT

We're aiming to expose any functionality that can possibly be delivered reliably in both IE and the SVG-enabled browsers. Take a look at the test_gfx.html to see what we're trying to get done for the first release -- it includes several things (curves, gradients) that RichDraw and xdraw didn't get around to implementing. As far as a drawing editor object goes, I'll be porting the xdraw SVG editor to use dojo.gfx.

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Strass

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:14:36 PDT

Is it more or less advanced than RichDraw ? http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/04/richdraw-simple-vmlsvg-editor/

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Gavin

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:28:04 PDT

Not in the 3.x branch, hopefully in 4.x, most likely 5.0. The API should be reasonably stable for a while if you want to play with it.

"dojo.gfx hits svn head": comment by Corey

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:48:05 PDT

Nice! Will this be in the next release of dojo?

"dojo.gfx hits svn head" by gavindoughtie

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:46:00 PDT

dojo.gfx, the normalized vector-drawing API for SVG and VML that I've been helping with is now in the head of the dojo subversion repository.

There's a fair amount of work still to be done, particularly to get VML looking right, but iit's ready for brave javascript hackers to start playing with

See http://dojotoolkit.org/developers/ for details on grabbing the trunk svn code. There's a single test file (tests/gfx/test_gfx.html) that should help you get started, and ongoing chatter on the dojo-contributors list if you want to keep an eye on the status.