SilVerliGht... ^ ^ ^ ...coincidence? I think not...some wag at MS must have thought "How can we embrace and extend SVG? I know, let's take SVG, add lots of additional letters and tell the world we invented it."
Guy Quoting ddailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks Doug -- your updates always seem to tell me something new. > > I didn't realize "XMLHttpRequest" had an abbreviation: XHR. (Perhaps > we should have a new tag that represents abbreviations of > abbreviations -- there must be a reason, I'm just daft at the moment > from trying to keep up with all that HTML WG stuff). > > Can you recommend some place to start reading on web-based peer to > peer stuff? I assume it is somewhat like XHR. Any examples that > anyone knows of of peer-peer SVG stuff going on? > > regards, > David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Doug Schepers > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 7:53 PM > Subject: Re: [svg-developers] Re: SVG support after 1 januar 2009, > how further? > > > 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 > > > > > [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 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/
