Status of SVG rendering on the XO

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Dec 21 01:28:45 EST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007, at 21:06 , Jake B wrote:

> Hello All,
> I am expecting to get my XO laptop in the mail any day now. I was  
> hoping someone could tell me, does the XO ship with with an SVG  
> renderer? I'm wondering if it would be possible to develop rich  
> apps in SVG and ECMAscript for deployment on the XO.
> I remember that there used to be an entry on SVG on the wiki, but  
> it appears to have been taken down...
> Please let me know. Thanks.


It works - but depending on the complexity of your app it gets rather  
slow.

For example, even Lively Kernel worked, which is a full in-browser  
application development environment:

http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/

- Bert -





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