[Clipart] Fwd: [Open Clip Art Library] New Clip Art Browser

Mon Apr 27 18:32:52 PDT 2009

very cool...anyone want to step up to test this out and/or integrate
with our packaging scripts?

I'm preoccupied with lgm 2009 prep.

Jon

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jeff Schiller <codedread at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I finally got around to building a script that cleanses SVG:
> http://codedread.com/scour/
>
> It's written in Python, but with a little know-how it could be
> integrated into the Open Clip Art Library.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
> On 3/23/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 18:10 -0500, Jeff Schiller wrote:
>>  > Jon,
>>  >
>>
>> > What language?  PHP?  I'm occasionally on the IRC channel as "codedread"...
>>  >
>>  > Jeff
>>
>>
>> Cool...yes, a php script that does the cleansing of PHP files that we
>>  could use to filter SVG through both for server-side-processing like:
>>
>>  http://openclipart.org/tools/sanesvg.php?path_to=people/name/file.svg&any_other_options
>>
>>  The best though would be to have some class for cleaning svg and saving
>>  out the good stuff which can be used in this sanesvg.php script and also
>>  hook into our upload process, cool?
>>
>>
>>  Jon
>>
>>
>>  > On 3/23/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>  > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:07 -0500, Jeff Schiller wrote:
>>  > > > Jon,
>>  > > >
>>  > > > Any reply on this yet?
>>  > > >
>>  > > > The issue at hand may be a "philosophical" one, but I think it boils
>>  > > > down to the fact that I believe submissions to OCAL should be mandated
>>  > > > with width="100%" and height="100%" until browsers have properly
>>  > > > implemented the "SVG embedding" mechanism that's supposed to override
>>  > > > the <svg>'s width/height
>>  > > > (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#ViewportSpace).
>>  > > >
>>  > > > I know "mandating" this will be impossible but until that happens,
>>  > > > browser vendors have kind of screwed it up for making a nice clip art
>>  > > > browser mashup like http://www.codedread.com/ocal-browse.php purely on
>>  > > > the client side.  Now the OCAL website, could do something like have a
>>  > > > PHP script that reads in a SVG clip art file, then spits back the same
>>  > > > SVG with the width/height/viewBox attributes modified accordingly.
>>  > > > This would be the best approach from my perspective and would keep
>>  > > > your traffic local...
>>  > >
>>  > > That is true...we have thought about adding a cleansing step in the
>>  > > process of uploading a file.
>>  > >
>>  > > Could you provide us a script that does this? That would help us out.
>>  > >
>>  > > Please join our list :)
>>  > >
>>  > > Jon
>>  > >
>>  > > > Regards,
>>  > > > Jeff
>>  > > >
>>  > > > On 3/8/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>  > > > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:02 -0600, Jeff Schiller wrote:
>>  > > > > > Hello,
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > This mail was rejected from your web form from at OCAL, I have no idea
>>  > > > > > why.  Maybe it doesn't like my gmail domain?  Bryce, not sure if
>>  > > > > > you're still involved directly with OCAL.
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > Also, I'd like to say that your captcha is pretty sucky - there's one
>>  > > > > > character in particular that I can't tell if it's a lower-case 'e' or
>>  > > > > > a funky '2', but both were rejected.  I'm attaching the captcha
>>  > > > > > screenshot - what is that second character?!?
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > So this is my fourth attempt to send this email - I hope it reaches
>>  > > > > > the right person this time! :)
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > Thanks,
>>  > > > > > Jeff
>>  > > > >
>>  > > > > Message received...I'll reply more in a bit...
>>  > > > >
>>  > > > > Jon
>>  > > > >
>>  > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>  > > > > > From: clipart-owner at lists.freedesktop.org <clipart-owner at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>  > > > > > Date: Mar 8, 2007 4:54 PM
>>  > > > > > Subject: [Open Clip Art Library] New Clip Art Browser
>>  > > > > > To: codedread at gmail.com
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has
>>  > > > > > been automatically rejected.  If you think that your messages are
>>  > > > > > being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at
>>  > > > > > clipart-owner at lists.freedesktop.org.
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>  > > > > > From: codedread at gmail.com
>>  > > > > > To: fwd2clipartlist at rejon.org
>>  > > > > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:54:31 -0800 (PST)
>>  > > > > > Subject: [Open Clip Art Library] New Clip Art Browser
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > Hello,
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > I designed a little web page that monitors the Atom feed from OCAL and
>>  > > > > > displays the latest images in thumbnails at
>>  > > > > > http://www.codedread.com/ocal-browse.php
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > It looks pretty good, but because of a variety of issues (too long to
>>  > > > > > explain in this short 1000-char limited box), I have to use some
>>  > > > > > server-side programming to suck over the SVG, change some of the
>>  > > > > > attributes (like width/height/viewBox) before it will display properly
>>  > > > > > in browsers like Opera 9 and Firefox 1.5+.  As a result, it's a very
>>  > > > > > heavy download everytime and doesn't allow browser caching of the SVG
>>  > > > > > documents directly.
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > I'd like to share with you some suggestions/thoughts I had via email,
>>  > > > > > please contact me.  If you'd like, I can give you the code (PHP, JS,
>>  > > > > > XHTML) that I used so you can do the same thing on openclipart.org
>>  > > > > > directly to browse tags, latest clips, etc.
>>  > > > > >
>>  > > > > > Thanks,
>>  > > > > > Jeff Schiller
>>  > > > > --
>>  > > > > Jon Phillips
>>  > > > >
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