Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Chinese Calligraphy






Hello everyone, we seem to be stopped the development for half a year. Why? Almost of our developers are just full-time student in Hong Kong. After our summer holiday of 2007, we are all busy with our school works.

Of course, when we have spare time, we will develop something and fix some bugs in our IME. Just one week ago, we have done a proof-of-concept program to see if it is possible to output Chinese Calligraphy by using vector graph (SVG) on browser.

http://ajaxime.com/~wonghang/svgpoc/
(The page is a simple DHTML to see SVGs, you can resize the SVG by dragging the small box on right-bottom corner)
Firefox has native support for SVG. If you are using IE, you might need to install Adobe SVG Viewer in order to see it.

Isn't it interesting? We are able to output a Chinese Calligraphy (just simply HTML code) to RichEdit when we are inputting Chinese using GownFull IME.

Tomorrow is the new year Chinese Lunar Calendar. GownFull Development Team wishes everyone has a happy Lunar New Year!".

Wong Hang
Chief Software Architect, GownFull

丁亥年癸丑月丙子日

3 comments:

Ruud Steltenpool said...

Very nice, i'll add it to my SVG links resource http://svg.startpagina.nl

Anonymous said...

Is GownFull IME still in development?? I'm very interested in the Japanese IME portion, and perhaps may be willing to contribute to getting it working (I'm an experienced programmer).

If it's not in development anymore, would you consider letting me use the AJAX code for my project? Thanks.

Ben Crox ( lxb ) said...

Hi Mr/Miss Anonymous,

Please feel free to get the source from http://code.google.com/p/gownfull/

Our members have shifted focus. You can still discuss with us in google group :
http://groups.google.com/group/gownfull . I'll be pleased if I can help you. You may fork the project, or tell us to test and merge code timely.