I like the idea of vendor neutral, but it needs to be a POPULAR standard first and foremost for me. If M$ succeeds at making XAML the way to go, so be it. I am not going to fight it.
If this happens other vendors will create their own XAML interfaces, and we will get to the same functionality either way. Adobe may be looking over its shoulder at XAML and is waiting to see where it goes before they invest any more into SVG. If so, they are missing an opportunity to become a new web standard, but perhaps they don't see any profit in it, so they don't bother. --- In [email protected], "Jeff Schiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Geoffrey Swenson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > I guess you mean the most popular solution and not simply "the > standard". > > Of course there are many competing technologies in this, but SVG is > not going anywhere - it's become a required technology in the European > mobile market, it's become popular on the Linux desktop (KDE and > GNOME) and most recently it has seen advances in native web browser > implementations (Mozilla, Opera and hopefully soon Safari). > > One important question to consider is whether you want to be locked in > to a technology controlled by only one company. Adobe's Flash may > have the most mature and widely deployed platform, Microsoft may have > a lot riding on XAML, but SVG is a vendor-neutral solution that will > (I believe) become the most ubiquitous. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/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/
