Hi, Kevgor- kggsystem wrote: > > Why should or would MS support SVG in IE? really... > > Microsoft basically has it now (today released as "Silverlight").
Microsoft is not a single entity. The IE team is completely separate from the Silverlight team, and in fact they compete for resources within the company (as do all divisions of MS). What the IE team and the Silverlight team do are independent efforts. The reason that the IE team would implement SVG is the same that any browser vendor would: because it is an open standard, and this is a way to keep pace with other browser vendors. > For those who are not following this effort, Silverlight basically > does "everything" SVG does and more, and what's more important, it > has essentially the same model as SVG (e.g. XML and Javascript is all > you need). As well it should; it is largely based on SVG, though as a proprietary single-vendor technology, it has moved more quickly. Open standards, as a collaborative effort between multiple vendors, are subject to more oversight and may develop more slowly. > I would suggest that the most MS would do is support conversion of > SVG to Silverlight format. Or perhaps support SVG in their viewer, since they are very similar. But both of us are merely speculating. > Now, above I said it does everything that SVG does. That is a bit of > a generalization. SVG does have some very nice features in text > handling, <defs>, CSS support and some more advanced animation > declarative constructs. But effectively Silverlight does 80% coverage > of SVG, and adds new stuff to the offering like built-in XmlHTTP, > Video, and Audio. And thats just V1.0 SVG also has XHR (via the new DOM), video, and audio... and that's just SVG Tiny 1.2. Regards- -Doug ----- 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/
