At 12:29 PM 12/15/2005, gee_whiz_bang wrote: >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.
No. This isn't the explanation. SVG and Flash are competing technologies. They are both graphically rich, scriptable, and interactive. Adobe buying Macromedia was the death knell for robust SVG support from Adobe. (At least, unless there is some kind of SVG / Flash integration, which I don't ever expect.) Why would Adobe put big resources behind SVG, which it can't own, when it has a chance to make Flash the really ubiquitous graphically-rich web plugin? Heck, Flash penetration *already* dwarfs SVG penetration. Bottom line: Adobe makes way more money off Flash than it does off of SVG, now that it owns Macromedia. Adobe definitely had big plans for SVG... until the Macromedia merger. The problem with SVG is that nobody does own it, and it's a very labor-intensive and expensive standard to fully implement. So it will probably keep getting better support from whatever open source projects can spare the manpower to keep plugging away at it, but I don't see why any large vendor would put major effort into SVG at this point. Which is a huge bummer, because I really loved doing interactive SVG/DOM web UI's :-( Cheers, Rob ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/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/
