Talk:SVG Tools

I have a few problems witht this page. How much of a problem depends on what the goals of OpenClipart are.

Is promoting an the SVG standard or promoting Free and Open Source Software more important to Openclipart? You can of course do both but only optimize for one thing so priorities need to be made clearer so we can all work from the same plan.

http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/index.php/SVG_Tools

"# Mozilla Firefox [...] SVG already implemented. The best solution!"

I understand people want to promote their favourite browser but that is a very subjective description.

In terms of best rendering of SVG the Adobe and Batik viewers have always been highly rated by the Inkscape developers. Unless things have changed dramatically recently Firefox does not have the best rendering compared to other viewers. In the long run Firefox+SVG has the potential to offer a much more tightly integrated platform but for now that is only wishful thinking. There may be various things Firefox is best at but SVG and openclipart do

The selection of software listed seems rather an odd mix, Openoffice having particularly poor SVG support. A cross link to the Inkscape Wiki would provide a much more extensive list of drawing software and SVG software, including a lot of proprietary software (which ties back to my earlier question asking what is really being promoted). Maybe it would be best to recommend only Inkscape as the recommended editor and direct users to the longer list in the Inkscape wiki if they are looking for other alternatives. Notably neither Adobe Illustrator nor Opera are mentioned.

Opera had SVG support long before Firefox but it is fairly normal for Opera to be unintentionally left out of consideration.

Edited main page to include link to Inkscape Wiki with a much longer list of related programs so we can keep this list short and relevant.

Removed the excessively enthusiastic and biased comments about Firefox, and added a comment about other Gecko based browsers being an option.