My name is Artem Kaznatcheev, I am finishing my second year at McGill University in a joint honours program in physics and computer science. I have an idea for a potential GSoC project that combines the dojo toolkit with SVG, but I am not sure if dojo is interested in this sort of work. The idea:
SVG is a potentially powerful tool for visualization of data and building beautiful GUIs that is often neglected. SVG as specified by W3C can use javascript for scripting purposes and is natively supported by some popular browsers (Firefox and others) and there are extensions for others browsers (like IE).
I was thinking of working on extending/creating part of the dojo toolkit to work with and inside SVG and to incorperate SVG elements in existing webpages for animations, more fluid GUIs and maybe even games. Is there any interest in the dojo community (espeshially among potential mentors) to work on incorporating svg support and widgets build with svg into the dojo toolkit?