hello,
i've been away from the list for a while taking care of some pressing
business. while i was away, it came to my attention that mozilla and
opera were going to support the svg format natively in their new browser
releases.
i could hardly wait. i had some big plans. i guess you could say i got
a bit delusional. with the use of svg as a background image with the
implementation of css3, the www was going to be my oyster. i thought of
the crawlers being able to read a svg file, along with screen readers;
and the world of web design would be once again be in the hands of
(hopefully) competent graphic designers. it was a very exciting delusion.
i installed the newest version of firefox and opera that supported svg
natively. i made a test file and up loaded it to my test site. ie
rendered the file fine ... good old ie, but my delusion was dashed to
smithereens when ff and opera displayed a blank page. what was wrong?
it was supposed to display my svg file. where was it? what did i do
wrong? then i found the answer on the opera web site. tiny svg? i was
crushed. where did this format come from. adobe and corel only convert
to a "standard" svg format; and inkscape wasn't there at the time either.
where did tiny come from? who changed the standard and why? now that
there is a new "standard", how long will it take to bring the graphic
software developers on board with this new "standard" and finally, how
does one convert a graphics file to the tiny "standard"?
i'm trying to make light of this. it only tells me that svg is still
way off down the road from becoming main stream and changing the face of
web page design. can, will anyone explain this discouraging phenomenon
to me? am i missing a point somewhere?
regards,
dwain
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