On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 12:43 +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
3D-type operations are really useful for doing things like drawing SVG objects (a standardised alternative to Flash), fonts, but it also makes the application a lot more consistent cross-platform apparently.
Does SVG have all the features regarding animation and related effects, like sound?
Oh yeah. SVG even defines a network socket layer. Nobody supports the full SVG spec. as far as I know, though (e.g., Firefox 1.5 supports SVG, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do animation yet - though I think you can fake it with scripting).
Again for all the flash movies out there, I hope that Gnash will succeed. There have been a few attempts before to create Free Software flash players, but have not made it over the hill of wider acceptance.
I agree. I don't think a GL requirement is to Gnash's detriment; rather, I think it will allow them to concentrate on understanding the file format than rewriting primitive graphics operations.
Cheers,
Alex.