I think it is a good thing that Adobe ends the SVGViewer, because everybody
knows in the meantime
that Adobe has a new technology Flex/Flash and SVG is competing to this. Now
SVG has the possibility
to grow to a nonpartisan standard which is not influenced by one company
But the way Adobe tries
I cannot find the announcement at adobe's website. Care to direct me to
the right URL?
So what's the alternative SVG viewer for IE? Can somebody make Opera as
an IE plugin?
Paton J. Lewis wrote:
For more information on this decision and answers to questions about
the discontinuation of
There are rumours that IE8 will have native svg support.
The rumour says that IE7 won't have it because it was too difficult and too
late support it, but that a decision was made to support svg in IE8.
This makes sense given that IE is slipping in rankings behind other
implementations that do
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/
nyem wrote:
I cannot find the announcement at adobe's website. Care to direct me to
the right URL?
So what's the alternative SVG viewer for IE? Can somebody make Opera as
an IE plugin?
Paton J. Lewis wrote:
For more information on this decision
Hi, folks-
There is a FAQ associated with this announcement, but of course, it's in
Web-unfriendly PDF. I'm forwarding on the text version for your
information.
Not only are they stopping support for the viewer, which is reasonable,
but they are preventing anyone from distributing it other
On Wednesday, September 6, 2006, 7:00:38 PM, Doug wrote:
DS That said, we will need to transition to a non-ASV SVG environment,
DS which stresses even more the need to code to standards rather than to a
DS particular implementation.
Thats always been true, but hopefully as a result of this
Another speculative muse in the category of looking on the bright side:
a) more people will probably start to use Firefox and Opera
b) Microsoft, sensing a loss of market share for IE, will decide to
reprioritize their own native support for SVG, under the old more features
means better
Anyone had any experience of converting SVG to flex?
Clearly Adobe is hoping that's what will happen.
Guy
On 07/09/2006, at 3:00 AM, Doug Schepers wrote:
Hi, folks-
There is a FAQ associated with this announcement, but of course,
it's in
Web-unfriendly PDF. I'm forwarding on the text
Hi, Ronan-
Ronan Oger wrote:
Yeah right, and compete with their own product? Doug, you are optimistic to a
fault.
Perhaps. But if you don't ask for something, you're unlikely to get it.
This announcement from Adobe had a rather tentative tone in parts,
suggesting to me that they might
My concern with FF, is how slow it is with SVG over 300k. Hopefully
within 1.5 years the issue will be solved. I tested it with the FF 2
beta 2, and mouseover events are still laboriously slow. I posted it as
a bug back in January, but nothing.
Ronan Oger wrote:
There are rumours that IE8
On 9/6/06 10:55 AM, Sean wrote:
My concern with FF, is how slow it is with SVG over 300k. Hopefully
within 1.5 years the issue will be solved. I tested it with the FF 2
beta 2, and mouseover events are still laboriously slow. I posted it as
a bug back in January, but nothing.
Have a bug #
Adobe has decided to discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer. There
are a number of other third-party SVG viewer implementations in the
marketplace, including native support for SVG in many Web browsers.
The SVG language and its adoption in the marketplace have both matured
to the point where
Well, that settles it. at least it's official after all this time. It's just a
shame they did not announce this 2 years ago.
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 20:37, Paton J. Lewis wrote:
Adobe has decided to discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer. There
are a number of other third-party SVG
Hi-
Well, I can't say that this comes as a surprise, though it is a pity
that they won't allow downloads after January 1, 2008 (as per their
FAQ). This means that for SVG to continue to be viable on the Web,
before that point there will need to be native IE support (possible) or
a new viewer
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