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This place is to collect ideas for future ideal SVG-authoring systems

Contents 1 Graphical Editors 1.1 Animation 2 IDEs: wish list and requirement analysis 3 SVGUI kit 4 Tree/Chart IDE 5 Send Your Wishes 6 Some remarks on re-use of existing work

Graphical Editors

• runs on Windows and Linux, Mac OS X
• path editing
  • select and move/rotate several nodes
• Pattern editor (similar to Michel Hirtzler's work)
• Style Editor
  • fill styles
  • line styles
• Symbol Editor
• Gradient Editor
• Filter editor
• SVG Font editing
• optimized and complete CSS (style elements, style code optimization, external stylesheets)

Animation

• real (endless) timeline
• complete animation (SMIL/SVG: keysplines, timing, etc)
• SMIL/SVG interactivity

IDEs: wish list and requirement analysis

• Everything in a graphical editor, plus the following
• Coding support
  • syntax highlighting
  • code validation (well-formedness, validity) and useful error-messages
  • auto-completion and drop-down selection lists with possible attributes, etc. (like in xml-spy)
  • Search, and search'n'replace with regexen and XPath. In addition to {{{replace regex with text value}}} one could also write {{{replace XPath with element/attribute name, etc}}}
• ECMA / Javascript Debugger
  • that supports Adobes internal ECMA-Scripting engine
• Dom-Graph
  • that shows icon previews (like in Jasc Webdraw)
  • that allows selections of multiple objects
  • that is linked to graphical preview and affected source-code lines
• Having source-code, layout and design panel, Preview and Dom Graph side by side, with updating of each-other while working in one module (this is particularly useful when working as a developer with dual monitor)
• generate readable and structured code
  • use all base-geometry (not just path-objects)
  • don't use complicated matrix-transformations, if similar results can be reached by simple transformations)
  • allow to compute simple transforms out of repeated transforms (like in jasc webdraw)
  • support for centrally defined style-sheets, symbols, defs, entities, etc.
• canvas & source views (only one, or both at once, as in Dreamweaver (DW) ): selecting object highlights code
• optimized and complete CSS (style elements, style code optimization, external stylesheets)
• runs on Windows and Linux, Mac OS X.
• integration, speed, and efficiency: I want to add editors and viewer as tabs, inside WD for example; and assign actions (commandlines) to switching tabs. Any program, any tool can be inserted in that chain. I want to save the copy-n-paste, save, but also all the commandlines and browser reloads. Validate, transform, preview in various browsers and viewers, all in one second ;)
• Support for variable content (like in AI10 and Adobe Altercast)
• Support for database-links
• svg-dev
  • various 1, various 2
  • optimization

SVGUI kit

("SVGUI" is used generically here for SVG+GUI; don't confuse with the project named http://svgui.sourceforge.net/, which shares some of the aims below)

• Implementation of and IDE for an SVG GUI toolkit
• lightweight and fast
• pure SVG windows (not just a canvas inside some grey MS rectangle)
• full Ruby, Python, and Perl integration
• perhaps ECMA Script
• Crossplatform: at least Windows, Linux, Mac OS (X++); Ideally also mobile stuff like UMTS, Pocket PC, Linux
• easy to use authoring IDE, with export options a) distributed (http server/browser based) b) local (fast, no http server)

Tree/Chart IDE

• Some advanced editor for modeling tree-/org-/dot-style - charts.
• import of .dot files
• highly customizable design of the SVGs.
• heavy usage of SVG&apos;s features like <use/>, symbols, arrowheads, etc
• user created graphics objects libs (I can grow my own collection of custom SVG fragments for nodes and connections)
• probably all the good stuff visio and UML tools have
• perhaps UXF/UML/XMI export
• design tree templates for dynamic visualization of dynamic data
• links, viewBox animations
• images
• Inxight style dynamic trees
• animated info boxes for display of information about a node
• stylesheets: "export for print" and "export for web" (includes animation, interactivity, etc.)

Send Your Wishes

Update this page, and send your wishes directly to implementors as well.

Some remarks on re-use of existing work

There are a lot of very useful svg-sites out there with existing code / ideas out there (like kevins or michels work, just to mention a few). If you, as a commercial software company / or open-source group, reuse these existing code / ideas I would find it self-evident to ask the authors for permissions and / or participation in your product / project. Those people invested a lot of time in their work and I would find it just fair to give credits - or if you commercially build on their work, make some arrangement in rewarding them for their work/ideas.

I agree about Inxight style dynamic trees - Moe