> Since Adobe will discontinue support for their SVG viewer, I am > wondering if I should abandon SVGs for Flash?
ASV is not the only SVG viewing option for IE. Not now and certainly not in the future. > Why is Adobe discontinuing support for the SVG viewer? Only the decision makers know. Here 2 (extreme?) thoughts :-) short term: -Adobe owns Flash. Income. vendor lock-in. long run: -Adobe thinks it needs the open format SVG is, to be able to stand Microsoft competition. As more and more people understand the advantage of a real open format, but too many people think SVG is an Adobe(-only) format, Adobe is taking a lower profile to give room to other implementations. And after all it's editors that are Adobe's business, editors that still have significant SVG support. > Will they release that code as open source? They said they won't > ASV, in my opinion, is a fantastic viewer for SVGs. For its time it was. Some bugs of both the forgiving and non-forgiving type are rather annoying though. Creating cross-viewer multi-namespaced SVG full off event-handling is no picknick with ASV being one of the viewers. > I like Opera's native support of SVGs, but right now, I have > to focus on what my customers will use and they are using IE. As i said ASV is not the only solution with IE. Other IE-solutions are premature for technical or availability reasons at this moment. That is changing quickly enough, in time for when ASV is no longer to be downloaded form adobe.com more than 2 years away. There's a difference in what your customers use now and what they use more than 2 years from now. Some gentle education can make a difference, make sure to at least mention it. Talk money: "the develop to standards, adjust for IE"-way, the mobile web soon to explode (maybe your customers already have phones running Opera), semantic content making sure your customers can find you through Google, etc. And well, even Microsoft uses SVG, for example in a big product like Virtual Earth. Just make sure to now start adjusting (mostly only small changes) your SVG code so it conforms to the standard and where possible (the popular Firefox for example doesn't do all of SVG yet) also works in other viewers. Cheers, Ruud http://svg.startpagina.nl (loads of SVG links) PS: what about Adobe putting out a new version of the Flash player on 01/01/09, that also does SVG (only as a fall-back for lousy browsers) through a deal with Renesis or one of the companies delivering mobile viewers, not making any fuss about it ? Unless it's really good i'm not so sure i want SVG support natively in IE actually ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
