Hi, David- ddailey wrote: | | I'm fiddling a bit with in-line SVG and have found the SVG's Wiki | description at http://wiki.svg.org/Inline_SVG quite helpful. | I'm feeling | mildly dazed by the number of hoops one has to go through for | cross-browser | compatability and began wondering if future IE's might opt | for a bit more | standards compliance when it comes to the XHTML / XML thing | (whence most of the hoops for inlining seem to emanate).
ASV is not capable of true inline SVG in IE for the mere fact that IE does not support XHTML. XHTML is treated, for all intents and purposes, as HTML, with the SVG being presented as an IE-specific "data island", not as proper mixed XML with a true DOM. | Might the whole Active X / embed / patent thing make inlining more | attractive as an option to MS since they seem to have been | blocked by the | courts from doing what they used to do with foreign content. | I don't really | understand what MS has been stopped from doing, so am not | clear if what I | suggest is remotely plausible, but I suspect there are folks | on this list who could speculate with considerable accuracy. This is, as you suggest, mere speculation on my part, but I'll throw in my 2 cents. With IE showing renewed interest in bringing their browser up to the level of standards-compliance demonstrated by Opera, Mozilla, and Safari, I would guess that some future version of IE will allow true inlining. As to when that will be, I won't hazard a guess, other than to say that I doubt it will be in 2006. Still, the landscape for SVG, and for interoperability in browsers in general (including mobile browsers) is a lot brighter than it's been for many years. Regards- Doug ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/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/
