Hi Rick, I think that the lack of reaction on your idea is not necessarily a sign of lack of interest. My reaction was not to react because it sound utterly logic and I therefore thought " yes of course native SVG(T) support in IE8 would be good...", and yes also ".. if its using the standard.." but that's true for every implementation. I have nothing against MS, but the problem-point in your plan is the question "who want to lead the charge?". If people reacted like me, they would've thought: "er... well, it's only little me, and I do not want to be the tiny Don Quichotte charging the giant windmills of MS". If MS do not think themselves that implementing this (or any other ) W3C standard in their next products, would the/any community have the clout to have them change their minds...?
____________________________ Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands) ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 _____________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Bullotta > Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 13:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [svg-developers] Native SVG Support in IE8 > > I'm very curious about the lack of interest in such a > thing...is the SVG developers forum simply losing > participants? Is there such contempt for Microsoft that it > interferes with rational thinking? Has the community "given up"? > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] on behalf of Rick Bullotta > Sent: Sun 7/24/2005 7:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [svg-developers] Native SVG Support in IE8 > > > > OK, we all know this isn't in the plans...but maybe, just > MAYBE - a well executed, POSITIVELY SPUN, e-mail and > press/media campaign upped the pressure on MS to support SVG > Tiny 1.1 (the code is 90% done - just retool VML!), with > pressure from users, corporate customers, ISV's, media > pundits, the mobile providers and equipment vendors, I think > it could happen. > > Who wants to lead the charge? > > If there's any resistance to doing this in the SVG community, > that would speak volumes about the prospects of SVG going > big-time mainstream. Like it or not, having MS on board > partway is better than not at all. > > Even cooler would be for the SVG community to donate the > implementation code to MS's development organization - we all > know how $$$'s are tight there ;). > > In any case, whadda ya all think? > > - Rick > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ----- > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ----- > 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 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/
