Microsoft would be making a mistake if they support SVG via some
transformation hack that converts SVG markup into underlying WPF markup.
Sure, probably a significant subset of the SVG language could be
implemented this way (after all, large parts of XAML markup were borrowed
from SVG and SMIL), but there will be incompatibilities galore when people
try to do real applications, the performance will be bad, and developers
will have huge learning curve problems. As a result, IE will continue to
compare poorly versus Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Instead, Microsoft should
use low-level engines such as a vector graphics engine and an animation
engine onto which both Silverlight markup and browser markup
(HTML+SVG+CSS+...) markup map.
Jon
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Has anyone here noticed what Sam Ruby is trying to do with
Silverlight and SVG? Here are his 2 posts on it:
Inline SVG in MSIE - http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/05/04/Inline-
SVG-in-MSIE
SVG to Silverlight Workbench -
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/05/06/SVG-to-Silverlight-Workbench
Now, don't get your hopes up. Although SVG and Silverlight have some
of the same roots (VML), they are very different formats. If MS was
going to support SVG, I would lay odds that it will be via
Silverlight.
For those of you that were not around back in the 2001-2003
timeframe, some of the oldtimers here that don't mind working with
Microsoft technologies tried to get inline SVG working via a IE only
technology called Element (and to a lesser extent, Binary)
Behaviors. Binary Behaviors were suppose to replace ActiveX plugins,
and rendered inline XML embedded in HTML. You sort of bound a
namespace to a plugin, and poof, it was suppose to render. Some of
the same people that work on IE's Behaviors technology have helped
define the vision of Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight.
When I get some time, I should find some of that old code, redo it
using Silverlight, so I can compare and contrast it and then publish
the results.
Don Demsak
www.donxml.com
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