Hi, Don- Don XML wrote: > > Opps, Microsoft just announce that they will be doing that > with Silverlight. Now, Adobe has killed off SVG support, and thrown > their muscle behind Flash.
No, they're really more focused on Apollo (which is much more than Flash). And it's pretty slick, especially the authoring tool. And they have hordes of loyal creators who will follow them wherever they lead. By contrast, MS has a loyal following of developers... not content creators. Silverlight will need to build a author base. > In the end, we (the developers) will win, > no matter which one winds up on top. But, my money is placed firmly > behind Microsoft. It makes sense in my case, and is probably not the > bet of choice on this discussion list. To each their own. But in the > end, we all can win from the competition (well everyone but the W3C). Sorry, who wins again with proprietary standards? Authors lose because they are locked into a for-pay format. Users lose because content becomes read-only. We all lose because the Web becomes broken up into territories (some of us may be old enough to remember the Internet before the Web). Adobe and Microsoft are both aggressively pursuing DRM (Digital "Rights" Management) and would be as happy as pigs in mud if they got a sufficient user/author base to lock it all up. The W3C is the most visionary standards organization I know of. They are heavily invested in pragmatic solutions to real-world problems, and are also looking forward to making it accessible to everyone, and to keeping it open. They invest in Semantic Web technologies to work on making the Web even more advanced. They also do stuff that I'm not interested in, but that's fine with me. If W3C is undermined, we all lose. I'm surprised to hear you take such a cynical view. 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/
