FlashLite vs SVG
February 24th, 2006
I had an interesting meeting during 3gsm with Ikivo CEO, Stefan Elmstedt and of Ikivo engineer, Sebastien Ruggeri. Ikivo provides some SVG implementation for mobile and some related tools. SVG was covering mainly the rendering part of vector graphics (or that was my understanding). So if you compare to Flash(Lite), it was just the vector graphics rendering part, and not the ActionScript part . Now TinySVG1.2 include some interactions and scripting capacities that can be embeeded into the file. In fact, it can contains a Jar file (and then interaction is done through JSR226) or some ECMA script. That’s quite interesting, and is a challenger for FlashLite. Unfortunatly, SVG content is quite poor yet, for two reasons in my view: lack of good tools (and I do not talk about Ikivo product, but of an equivalent of Flash), and lack of experimented designer with the technology. This still require some investigation (is scripting mandatory? thats unclear for me). But what if this happens, this is a great way to go into the path of integrating several component around J2me. So the SVG vs FlashLite battle is about to begin….
Technorati Tags: FLashLite, SVG, TinySvg, J2me, JavaMe, Mobile
5 Comments Add your own
1. Marco Casario | February 24th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Hi Tom,
Flash Lite 1.1 embeds SVG-Tiny … so I dont’ know if we can talk about FlashLie vs SVG.
2. stelt | February 24th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
lack of experimented designer? Because of the similarities with HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, etc. coding with SVG is not all new.
Though Flash has had some more years and therefore tools, the SVG spectrum is growing and filling fast: see http://svg.startpagina.nl
3. Marco Casario | February 24th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
There’s a cool mobile SVG authoring tool out there :
http://www.beatware.com/products/md.html
4. Antoine Quint | February 24th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Actually, the SVGT component in Flash Lite is optional, and I’m not sure any of the FL 1.1 shipment in phones actually embeds it. I think there really is a debate around SVGT vs. Flash Lite, just like there is JME vs. FLash Lite. In my opinion, the main advantage for SVGT is its integration in different platforms and with different standards. SVGT can be used seamlessly within XHTML, or JME (JSR 226), or S60 (Scalable UI APIs), BREW, etc. In contrast, Flash Lite’s architecture is monolithic and stand-alone, so there are two different approaches to a similar problem space.
5. TomSoft | February 26th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
The fact that FlashLite embeed SVG Tiny does not mean that they are not competing…In fact, I think that it’s a way for Adobe to fight SVG. But others (like Ikivo) are provinding SVG implementation.
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