SVG issues and ideas for SVG Open talk?

I’m putting together a talk proposal for SVG Open 2009, which will be in early October at the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.

I’ve got plenty of background I can pull in on the challenges and benefits of SVG on the web and the tradeoffs we’ve made in our usage and implementation, but I know lots of you folks out there have been more active on the ‘content-generation’ end of things and can point out some things I wouldn’t think of.

If anybody’s got any particularly interesting issues, examples, problems, or idea prototypes relating to usage of SVG on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, I’d love to see how much I can pack in. :)

Pointers to cool feature proposals like Nikola’s localization presentation at Wikimania last year, or bulk anaylsis like benchmarks and compatibility tests on images in actual use would be of particular interest.

2 thoughts on “SVG issues and ideas for SVG Open talk?”

  1. From time to time I have need to generate images (from Python). And whenever I start to do so, my mind is stuck in complex modules, like TkInter is.

    *But*, SVG is the best answer for that. Generating SVG (by writing XML code) is really a great advantage for programming. Besides that, the code may be compatible between various programming languages. And, if some other format is needed, there is nothing easier than doing “convert image.svg image.png”, for example.

    At the other side, I would really like to see more useful implementations of SVG viewers. AFAIK, by some features it is more advanced format than SWF. And it is free.

  2. Some stuff related with Inkscape: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/62294

    Personally i’d like to edit SVG source code right on the site, where edits are only accepted after validation.

    You probably already searched for “SVG” in Wikimedia’s bug system, there’s quite a list.

    I’d prefer SVG served directly, not a rasterization.
    For semantic (searchability, by my browser and by search bots) use of SVG Text.
    IE is a problem, but keep an eye on what is happening in the IE fixes space.

    I’ve heard many SVG files assume a default white screen/browser background.

    Just from the top of my mind

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