Interview with Ted Gould: SVG, Inkscape and Web Standards


Posted by jjzeidner apropos articles on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 07:52:49 BST

A brief and informative interview with one of the major figures in SVG, Ted Gould progenitor of the Inkscape project. Ted Gould: SVG, Inkscape and Web Standards

JMZ: Ted, you've been involved with SVG for some time. How did you first get involved with the SVG standard?

TG: I first started to work with SVG by contributing to Sodipodi, I'd have to say that I didn't really understand what it was at that time, I was more interested in vector drawing in general. But now I've grown to be quite the SVG advocate.

JMZ: I've noticed! Aside from members of the SVG working group @ W3C such as Chris Lilley, you're one of the more prominent names associated with this technology. Your work with SodiPodi is what led way to the Inkscape project. Exactly how did this transition happen?

TG: There were several developers that were working on Sodipodi who weren't able to get our patches into the mainline. Among other things, we figured that... continued
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