The winners are: Opera for the best performance (shame on me, I never use it) and Firefox for the best looking SVG render. Support: about browser compatibility: all new major browsers are supported (i didn't tested IE), but unfortunately Chrome can't render SVG circle correctly. It was a pleasure to code the whole thing, I'm a bit sad it is already done. As it was done, I couldn't stop, and I added more and more features, and finally I got this tool. I'm working on a hobby project, a scale construction machine, which needed some spur gears, and I quickly made a simple spur gear creator script in Javascript with SVG output. Gears can be animated with various speed to demonstrate working mechanism. In addition it let you compose full gear layouts with connetcted gears to design multiple gears system with control of the input/output ratio and rotation speed.
Still, Cutler took VMS and made WNT (one letter down, lucky coincidence) so, in a way, it now runs primarily on VMS.Gear Generator is a tool for creating involute spur gears and download them in DXF or SVG format. We were a VAXn company and would have given priority to VMS if it was available, but we ended up with HPUX. **It could have, but I don't see any docs. Ken Olson had enough missteps at the time the writing was on the wall. Even at the time that would have been a clear waste of money to develop. I know it ran on DEC equipment, but I don't recall a VMS version**. I recall my disappointment when I was moved to the Windows NT version.
A lot of users were looking forward to Itanium before HP and Intel screwed that up for the HPUX side. At the time it seemed to be UNIX only and it still bears that mark, though a lot of changes to the outside interface have occurred to obscure them. I worked with Pro/Engineer when it was only usable on UNIX (HPUX, Solaris, Ultrix, et al).
Being not-native makes porting easier, but then it doesn't fit so well on the target with user expectations one of the reason that Solidworks seems to feel better to those who like it. Perhaps I'm mistaken but the last time I looked WF used almost no standard Windows dialog boxes, making interfacing with tools like AutoIt almost impossible. I know that PTC originally split the underlying code from the GUI, such as MOTIF et al, so it could be ported among the various UNIXes with the resulting custom code for the supporting the interface moved to Windows. A certain big company has enough cash to port their office products, but I know they weren't designed to be portable and they don't do it for the income. Wordperfect was the last one to really make an effort. I am looking at about 30 years of software development and the small number of companies that have been able to support multiple OSs. How bad would it be? Sure, keep those options open.
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