*rantish* For me it's not that IE is MS, it's mostly just an "*eyeroll* Oh, another implementation to consider, yay." reaction.
Though if IE standards conformance is indicative, I fear it good. That and the MS lack of interest of developing IE in any serious way over the last, say, five years (which may actually be a strategical decision, as has been argued), it seems possible SVG too may be headed for a few years of DHTML-like fiasco of having to detect and specifically code for every single UA, which, call me crazy, makes me think twice about using it. There's one SVG file I made (the first ever I made, so it may not be conformant) that is rendered differently (sometimes subtly, sometimes not) on ASV, Batik and Firefox, which I'm quite unhappy about. Practically, I'm guessing many people will start telling their majority of viewers (IE) "I know your browser supports it, but I want you to download this here instead" once their project becomes complex enough to make UA juggling unmanagable. Said juggling already exists in the form of the inability to use standards when loading external data, or even specifying a particular scripting language/implementation, and neither of these looks like it is going to be resolved any time soon. Never mind that certain things are unstandardized common practice, technically including mouse events. I know this exists in any field, thateveryone just works around it and that that may be entirely practical, and besides, I'm an SVG newbie so may be missing some points. Thing is, I do not see much centralised drive to standardize, which for me is reason enough to decide not to take SVG too seriously - for a number of things there are probably more practical alternatives. --Bart ----- 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/
