Hi, Z T- Z T Minhas wrote: > This is a group dedicate to helping technical issues related > to SVG. Moderator please kick these agent provocateurs off > the group. I want information about SVG and how i can > incorporate such in my applications. I don't want 3rd party > fake viral marketers sponsored by some Micro$oft partner > telling me about gray-darkness. That is not the point of > this group. If you want to do that, get off this group, > and make your own yahoo group where you can market all you like.
I appreciate your dedication to SVG, and if I did think that this were a case of viral marketers, I would moderate their comments (that is, set their posting status to require a review before going to this list) until they proved that they were sincere; I don't like the idea of kicking anyone off the list. But I don't think that's what's going on. I think these are people who have a genuine interest and excitement about a different technology, and I feel my request for them to self-moderate and stay on-topic is the best course. We're all adults here. I, for one, don't feel that their assessments of SVG and the market are correct. Silverlight is definitely a danger to the openness of the Web, but I don't think it will sound the death knell of SVG. But listening to perspectives on why Silverlight is compelling to them informs us what improvements need to be made to SVG. Ultimately, I think that Silverlight may even be good for SVG. A rising tide raises all ships, and with more than Flash in the Web vector-graphics space, I think this entire approach will start to gain more currency with serious developers and corporations. There will be those who recognize that it is in their best interest to promote an open standard rather than succumb to vendor lock-in. These large organizations will have felt the sting of lock-in before. When Flash/Apollo and Silverlight clash, it is SVG which wins the long game. Both of those technologies exist only to make a profit for their controllers; SVG exists to provide a cross-vendor solution to the same problem. If either one of the commercial vendors feels like their technology isn't profitable enough, they will drop it like a hot brick. Smart companies know this. Meanwhile, SVG will be the open standards tortoise to the commercial hares (though we *are* trying to urge the tortoise on a little... we're well aware of market pressures :) ). I suspect SVG will always be more pervasive outside the general browser than either of the competing technologies, and that is one of its hidden strengths. Inside the browser, SVG is also the only one which is natively implemented in any browser, and I think it has staying power. 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/
