Don Demsak wrote: > Maybe I should lighten up a bit. I guess we (the folks on the list > back in 2000-2001) were way ahead of the curve and need to give the > rest of the world to catch up. I mean, what's all this fuss about > AJAX? Weren't we doing that back then too? And no one seemed to > notice?
What he said. The first time someone pointed out AJAX to me I spent a good hour trying real hard to figure out what all the fuss was about, only to realize that it was just a coolish acronym wrapped around common practice. Just like eXtreme Programming and countless other things before them. Not that there's anything wrong with that, if it helps popularize good technology it can't hurt. Same goes for all the hype around things like GMail, Google Maps, A9... They're technologically quite underwhelming and I'm sure a lot of people on this list were doing similar things years ago, but the exposure helps get more people aboard. I do think that you should lighten up. To whoever follows innovations closely in a given domain, the pace of technological evolution can only seem glacial. A very good sign for SVG's future is that it has only continued growing over the past years. Not always in obvious ways, and not always where some of us would like to see it (a lot of it has been on mobile platforms -- but hey, once you have SVG Tiny 1.2 do you really need SVG Full?) but progress has been steady. Browsers and OS toolkits are also waking up to vector graphics (be it with the Canvas API on top of which a large part of static SVG Tiny can be implemented, XAML's graphical parts, or SVG directly supported in Opera and Mozilla). Growth means that at some point you reach the tipping point where a technology becomes popular and widespread. Michael Champion was saying the other day that it took Microsoft 8 years to get XML everywhere that Microsoft products are, which to many seems an eternity. It's becoming increasingly difficult to not have SVG everywhere you have a mobile phone, how long can it take for desktops to catch up? ;) -- Robin Berjon Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
