SVG Edit standalone widget

February 18, 2010 · by Patrick H. Lauke

Who says that widgets can only be used for small, trivial apps? Certainly not Developer Relations' own Vadim Makeev, who took the open source, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG-edit project and turned it into an amazing standalone widget that can hold its own against traditional desktop applications.

Widgets have been a part of Opera for a long time, but traditionally they required the browser to be running. In Opera 10.50 beta, we effectively decoupled the widget engine, allowing for standalone widgets that install and run just like native applications.

SVG Edit by Pepelsbey (requires Opera 10.50 beta)

Key features of the widget include:

Comprehensive set of tools for vector drawing
Inclusion of raster graphics
Ability to load and save local SVG files
Layers (new in version 2.4)
User interface localization (with more languages planned for version 2.5)

For a list of issues and feature request, see http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/issues/list

You can have an exclusive sneak-peek at the next version of SVG-edit, directly in your browser, at http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/editor/svg-editor.html

Readers' comments 13

Left under the original article, as archived.

Dustin WilsonThursday, February 18, 2010 5:43:00 PM
Quite an excellent job there. Standalone widgets are going to be quite a bit more useful IMO.
Daniel HendrycksThursday, February 18, 2010 10:07:56 PM
I installed this widget the day it was available. It's very nice.
DavidThursday, February 18, 2010 10:40:46 PM
I'm impressed!
Cutting SpoonFriday, February 19, 2010 2:20:17 AM
Needed.
xeon0541Friday, February 19, 2010 5:54:49 AM
unbelievable
João DavidFriday, February 19, 2010 4:05:45 PM
Congrats. this is a quite useful widget. will use it regularly.
v-loveFriday, February 19, 2010 7:56:28 PM
funny how other browsers barely even support this technology...
Charles SchlossFriday, February 19, 2010 10:12:15 PM
tomassplatchSunday, February 28, 2010 5:06:03 PM
have you guys seen this?
http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2010/02/27/contenteditable-hopesdashed/
Cutting SpoonTuesday, March 2, 2010 4:56:30 AM
The question is...was he only using 10.10?

The next question is...will 10.50 Final change this?

But the big question: Is this an SVG spec violation?
MediumFriday, March 26, 2010 5:14:12 AM
This widget can be installed as an application, but many others probably not.
SergeyPochinokFriday, July 9, 2010 2:03:27 AM
Please, update version SVG-edit in widget...
Unregistered userThursday, December 9, 2010 8:50:37 AM
Anonymous writes: Impressive !!!