Hi, Jeff- As usual, I think you hit the nail on the head.
I have been taking stock on exactly the options you have gone over. Mozilla is open source and of high quality. Renesis has made good progress and is planning some very interesting things for their October release. Amanith is just lovely, but they have no DOM or scripting. All of these have one thing in common: we need to figure out how to package any or all of these as a plug-in/"Add On" for IE. We would need information on: * The basic packaging of how this would work, including managing how the target content (SVG) is recognized and rendered. I have looked around, but could not find a clear set of instructions... I'm sure it's out there, though. Possibly we can even find even a stub that will serve as a template. * How to manage SVG<->HTML communication, possibly between different scripting engines. * How to inline SVG insofar as IE is capable of this (optional). * How to do all this in a way that will work even if MS IE changes their architecture because of the Eolas lawsuit. I welcome any clues about any of the above. The Corel and Mobiform viewers all had at least some of the above, and though at least Corel is dead, maybe we can find someone from those fronts with the proper knowledge. Regards- -Doug Jeff Schiller wrote: > We can't rely on Microsoft, just like we shouldn't have been > comfortable relying on Adobe, to do the right thing and implement > native support for SVG for free. There are business considerations > that will always take priority. Even if they do it, I fear > compatibility issues - their browser engine is still the worst of the > major browsers out there. > > So where are the open source, cross-platform SVG 1.1 viewers ? What > about taking the Mozilla base and developing a browser plugin from > that for only SVG support? What about candidates like AmanithVG and > Renesis for a SVG 1.2 viewer? Let's get a list of all the candidate > open-source projects and contribute so that they flourish before Jan > 2008. > > And I agree with Jon - praise to Adobe for past support, but I cry > foul to MacroAdobe for this distinctly hostile gesture towards this > development community. They know there is no suitable replacement > for IE as of today. > > Jeff ----- 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/
