Open Mashups Studio
By Paul Rouget on Monday 5 May 2008, 17:13 - shared - Permalink
A new entry to the Mozpad Universe: Open Mashups Studio.
From open-mashups.org :
Open Mashups is a unique solution that empower any creative user to design, run and share its own applications. These applications are built by assembling components.
Take a look at the screencast ! It's awesome (notice the SVG related work) !
Open-Mashups is a Firefox extension based on technologies such as SVG, XBL, XSLT and XPCom. The author of the extension (Fabrice Desré, from Orange Labs - France Telecom) told me a future version of this tool will be based on XulRunner in order to provide a cross platform Desktop widget engine :)
Try it ! (Firefox 3 required)
Comments
Awesome.
What about the performance of SVG? It's much slower than HTML in my mind. Any way, static SVG is fast enough.
SVG dynamic performance is OK. It's a very different beast from HTML, and I don't think it would have been better if I used floating divs/canvas to do it.
And there are SVG features like zooming that would be hard to emulate....
However I found that using opacity slows down rendering to a crawl. I also try to only have "live" the displayed elements, and create temporary ones on the fly.