Thanks John, In case these "key differences" between FXG and SVG still exist, I don't understand why Adobe folks consider not to support FXG 2.0 and forthcoming versions of FXG in their design tools - like Photoshop CS6 (and later), Illustrator CS6 (and later) and Fireworks CS6 (and later) ???
-- Sebastian (PPMC) Interaction Designer Looking for a Login Example with Apache Flex? Please check out this code: http://code.google.com/p/masuland/wiki/LoginExample On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:55 AM, John Cunliffe <mahn...@gmail.com> wrote: > second hit< > http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/09/30/why-adobe-chose-fxg-over-svg/ > >on > google for "why fxg over svg": > > When initial work on an XML-based graphics interchange format began, the > natural first thought was to use SVG. However, there are key differences > between SVG and Flash Player’s graphics capabilities. These include core > differences in SVG and Flash’s rendering model with regards to filters, > transforms and text. Additionally, the interchange format needed to be able > to support future Flash Player features, which would not necessarily map to > SVG features. As such, the decision was made to go with a new interchange > format, FXG, instead of having a non-standard implementation of SVG. FXG > does borrow from SVG whenever possible. > > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Sebastian Mohr <flex.masul...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > @Alex ... you wrote this: > > > > > Don't PhotoShop and Illustrator output SVG as well? What is it about > FXG > > > that is a must-have especially if you are targeting HTML and not Flash? > > > > I don't know why Adobe created FXG? For now, I just know that I need it > for > > my work as interaction designer when working with Flash Catalyst CS5.5 > ... > > Hopefully, Adobe folks on this list could explain that! > > > > > > -- > > Sebastian (PPMC) > > Interaction Designer > > > > Looking for a Login Example with Apache Flex? Please check out this code: > > http://code.google.com/p/masuland/wiki/LoginExample > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/14/13 12:33 PM, "Om" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >> > > > >> I'm not sure what Adobe gains by continuing to > > > >> spend resources on FXG support at this time. If you can show there > > > would > > > >> be > > > >> a significant upside, I will try to bring that case to the right > > people > > > in > > > >> Adobe. > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > I am not sure how I can convince Adobe, but here is my reasoning: At > > my > > > > current and previous companies, Fireworks is used just because of its > > > > ability to convert visual designs into FXG. We dabbled with > > Catalyst, > > > > but we found that the tool was too complicated to use for Designers, > > but > > > > too elementary for Developers. But, the ability to serialize visual > > > assets > > > > as FXG turned out to be the best way to skin Flex apps. > > > > > > > > On the other side, I am very proficient with Photoshop and not too > > > familiar > > > > with Fireworks. For my simple apps, I choose to create the skins in > > > > Photoshop and spit it out as FXG and just import it into Flex. > > > > > > > > I know other folks that used Illustrator for the same purpose. (BTW, > > > > Illustrator CS6 still supports the "Save As... > FXG > FXG 2.0" > option. > > > I > > > > just tried it out last night. Not sure what to make of this. ) > > > > > > > > Thats the possibility of three different tools Adobe could make money > > of > > > > off from customers who don't necessarily use these tools without FXG > > > > support. > > > > > > > > And frankly, the absence of this utility could potentially hurt my > > chance > > > > of making sure we dont move away from Flex where I work. > > > Don't PhotoShop and Illustrator output SVG as well? What is it about > FXG > > > that is a must-have especially if you are targeting HTML and not Flash? > > > > > > -- > > > Alex Harui > > > Flex SDK Team > > > Adobe Systems, Inc. > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > > > > > >
