Posted by SpaceGirl on 08/28/05 23:56

Morgan wrote:
> Still arobe support SVG, and microsofts always slow on the uptake with
> crossbrowser technology anyway. Having a dynamic SVG would be very
> cool, could lay the ground for serious graphic interfaces instead of
> decorations in the way flash is mostly used.
>

SVG is *horrible* though. The files are huge. I for one believe SVG is
dead anyway;

1. Next year sees Windows Vista (Windows 6.0) which includes something
called Metro. It's a light-weight XML engine that descibeds UIs as well
as document distribution, and it being touted by MS as a replacement for
Flash and PDF.

2. Macromedia have been eaten by Adobe, so Adobe now owns the Flash
format. Flash is far more compact and can do a lot more. A fairly simple
SVG image could be over 100kb. An entire interactive Flash site with
animation and audio can be done in less than 50kb. I dont see Adobe
being interested in maintaining SVG for much longer.


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