Good thing with js is that we can probably get the timezone from the browser which makes more sense, but there would still be quite some work to adapt the font size to each language and adapt to non-left to right languages too

Julien

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF <fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi and thanks for joining the explanations.

Unfortunately asking SFD teams promoters to insert JavaScript into their
web pages and select the right time zone seems a bit complicated. We
want something that is the easiest possible to insert and live little
chance for mistakes. I was actually thinking it was the same scripting
idea we tried in the past to combine the SVG and some text files to
generate the PNGs.

Now we could definitely have both options available and people chose
what works best for them (that doesn't mean I can do options number 2
though).

Fred

On 07/18/2013 02:32 PM, julien forgeat wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I think what Alexandro is suggesting is that we create a javascript that
> people would insert in their webpage along with the background of the
> countdown, in svg format. Then we would have a <text> in the svg that
> would be left blank and whose content would be controlled by javascript
> using getElementByID or something similar.
>
> Julien
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF
> <fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org

> <mailto:fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>     Answers below. I remove much of the email but the idea I think is more
>     than 1 year old. I remember someone trying with the Inkscape scripting
>     like 2 years ago at least and we discussed about the issues to finally
>     give up. But I think it was just to automate the making of 100+ png
>     images. So apparently I'm still confused about your proposal.
>
>     On 07/18/2013 02:51 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>     > iframe's suck, and I am not sure I understand why would we need an
>     > iframe. The whole point of the proposal is to not end up with 100
>     images
>     > but one single SVG and a datasource.
>
>     Not sure I understood. As I said I will read the links you offered, it
>     will just take time.
>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     I hope you understand my perspective. I'm just a volunteer
>     with limited
>     >     knowledge and a lot of things to do.
>     >
>     >
>     > From my understanding you know far better Javascript than I do (I
>     > assume you did the OpenLayer map), and XML is well... just like
>     HTML in
>     > the end.
>
>     That wasn't me. The OSM layer was added by an Italian contributor (we
>     asked for someone to help). No one at the SFI board at the time was able
>     to do the job...which is why we were using Google maps initially.
>
>     As you see we just put the pieces together (while doing was we were able
>     to do).
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Fred
>
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