SVG has a lot of support behind it beyond Adobe. I mentioned Adobe because I found that plug in. My guess is that this will replace VML (Vector Markup Language) in the MS catalog. On the XML list, SVG is being trumpeted as "the real killer app" and the app to "revolutionize the web". Seems we've heard all of that before. :-) Yet this is not coming from Adobe; these remarks are coming from folks like Tim Bray, Dave Winer, Peter Murray-Rust etc, who are stellars in the XML cosmos. I don't think it is killer but that is because I don't think "killer" makes sense anymore. What we need are tools that fit together easily and cheaply for building multimedia apps and this will definitely fit into the toolkit for DHTML very smoothly. So for those who need to do the semi-complex apps with the DHTML and animation integrated (eg, intelligent parts libraries a la Ford, Chrysler, etc), this is a likely winner. Opening it up and peering, it has a lot in common with VRML where VRML uses primitives. The scripting interface is easier than what we will have with the wrapper tags in X3D but the download is larger than what a Core X3D should be. I'd hazard a guess and say this will pick up a lot of the market that core wanted (the ad apps) given the demos. As animation junkies, it will be good to be familiar with it since most of the concepts are easy to learn if you have a background in VRML. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > -----Original Message----- > From: Jed Hartman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 6:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SVG > > Sandy wrote: > > >Looks like it's going > >head-to-head with the type of sites and imagery created with Flash. > <Macromedia-employee-hat value="off"> I suspect Adobe hopes SVG > will be a Flash-killer, though Macromedia is one of the companies > that was involved in defining SVG. On the one hand, SVG is an open > standard; on the other hand, it's (as I understand it) XML-based, so > text rather than binary, so bigger file sizes. > ...Same old questions, really: proprietary approaches have some > advantages, open standards have other advantages. I'm not actually > associated with Flash, but just working at Macromedia makes me too > biased to have useful opinions on this stuff. Any way you slice it, > though, SVG is certainly interesting. </Macromedia-employee-hat> > > --jed
