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

[Jon Phillips]

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
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