<<I doubt that IE7 will, because Microsoft does not implement open standards unless they absolutely have to.>>
That's not entirely a fair assessment. I think the motivation is more "commercial" than "peer pressure". I think their support of RSS in Longhorn is a great step forward. Microsoft's SVG support has, indeed, been sparse or non-existent though. Back to the practical matters of supporting SVG in IE, Adobe's SVG viewer has a much, MUCH, MUUUUCH better chance of widespread installation by Trojan horsing in on the back of the PDF reader. Or via Flash viewer support for SVG Tiny or Basic, which is on something like 98% of internet connected PC's. I think it a stretch to think that a plug-in from a small company will see huge installed base, particularly behind the corporate firewall, but I guess you have to start somewhere! ;> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Schepers Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] The Future of SVG (was: SVG fonts in ASV) Hi, Sylvain- Until recently, I would have agreed with you. However, the FireFox browser will soon have native SVG support. I doubt that IE7 will, because Microsoft does not implement open standards unless they absolutely have to. However, EvolGraphiX intends to release a browser plugin based on Maxim Shemanarev's excellent AGG vector engine. Their stated intent is to make it fully compliant with the Spec, which Adobe has never done. Also, as I understand it, they are aiming toward a broader range of support, with Mac and Linux treated as first-class citizens ... Regards- Doug doug . schepers @ vectoreal.com www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. ----- 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/
