Your post on this just sounds like you hope that Adobe will see the need to restart work on SVG, but in some way confirms that they have set it aside at the moment.
I certainly didn't find the wishy-washy statements by the Adobe people here to be very encouraging at all. And the long-in-the-tooth 2.5 year-old beta also speaks volumes about where this is headed. My take on it is that the app I have just written will probably have to be modified later to use XAML or whatever actually becomes the standard. It looks like there are a lot of contenders for this sort of functionality, and SVG is only one of them. Geoffrey J. Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul_willson8 Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:47 AM To: gee_whiz_bang Subject: Re: Is Adobe abandoning SVG? I think, new technologies emerge next year likely force Adobe/Macromedia to support the SVG in some form. If they don't, they would loose substantially or driven out from many web related product segments. For example they may support SVG in MXML/Flex to draw primitive graphics elements. This may be akin to the way SVG is supported in Mozilla. I am bit new to MAXML/Flex, but my understanding is that they don't support primitive XML-statements. Of course, they may have Action-script-API, but that in not the same. They will be forced to support SVG, to counter fully functional XAML and inline-SVG enabled FireFox. Otherwise, they would loose many third party component-vendors, and eventually application developers. I strongly believe, this would happen, because, I know few things, such as, stealthy technologies that would help developers build complex GUI applications than ever possible on Windows or Java/Swing at fraction of the cost. If Adobe employees reading this, please watch out for new technology announcements (e.g. component based software development inventions/patents) in the first half of next year. Paul --- In [email protected], "gee_whiz_bang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed the ASV 6 beta (from > http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html ) > and it looks really good. The antialiasing looks better, and some > helpful features like cursors are implemented. > > The shadow filter I am using looks cleaner as well. > > But since the BETA is 2.5 years old, it looks like Adobe's work has > ground to a halt. As kewl as SVG is, is Adobe giving up on it? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- 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/
