Re: GTK+ canvas?

[Rick L Vinyard Jr <rvinyard cs nmsu edu>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> To me an HTML widget basically _is_ a canvas, and canvas heavily 
> overlaps HTML/Flash, except that the canvas works well in a desktop app 
> and HTML/Flash work well inside a browser.
>   


I've seen many comments re HTML as a model. Is there a reason why SVG 
hasn't entered the conversation; in particular the aspects of SVG that 
refer to interactivity (with many events that are almost a 1-1 mapping 
with Gdk), scripting and animation.