Most of what we can discuss here will be pure speculation, but I have heard from some sources that a future version of IE will support SVG. Chris Wilson has publicly stated that Microsoft considers SVG one of the core standards that all browsers should implement (it was lumped into the bucket with HTML, CSS, JavaScript). That's all I know at the moment.
And look at the facts: Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and soon Safari all support SVG. From the looks of things, within a year's time we will have 3 major browsers natively support a very decent set of SVG 1.1 features. Is IE really going to sit that one out and put all their chips on XAML? >From what I can tell - with the XAML/WPF infrastructure in place, it might be a relatively small project to also implement SVG support (including scripting) - so I think Microsoft would be stupid not to. Btw, I don't think WPF/E will necessarily be plugin-only - I think that a future version of IE (the next one) will probably just support it natively - they will keep the plugin around for all the other browser users, which they can't ignore anymore. Just some random thoughts from the sidelines, Jeff --- In [email protected], "ddailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Prior to the release of IE7, there was a good deal of speculation on this list (including a bit of active attempt at pursuasion), back circa April 2006, about Microsoft's long term plans for SVG. > > Does anyone have any new insights? > > On a related note, the last strategic note I can find from Microsoft concerning VML is that they will continue to support it -- but that statement is dated 1999, I think. Can we assume that VML will be around precisely as long as Microsoft is or do they plan to gradually phase it out over the next few decades? It seems like the security bug that popped up in October of 2006 may have made it more of a liability than an asset. Is anyone at MS talking about the future of VML? > > Just musing aloud: > > I gather that most of XAML lives outside the browser environment and is more concerned with gluing things together (sort of like XSLT or sXBL) than with actual 2D graphics -- as I recall, Apple had developed something kinda cool like that in the late 1980's. For those who have worked with XAML, how difficult would it be to let IE version k>7.0, coexist with XAML and SVG? 400 person years or less? > > How many person years did the ASV plugin take to develop (or is that a secret)? How many person years have gone into Opera and Firefox's SVG developments? 100 person years or less? It's hard to imagine any software project with the big companies taking less than 100 person years, just owing to the appetites of the bean counters. (Brooks' law may underestimate both the weight of beans and the value of zeal.) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ----- 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/
