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> I pushed the Macromedia folks at WEB 2001 to support > SVG (and SMIL). Thank you! Tell them it is the sooner the better... nothing wrong with Flash, it's just the .SWF part that [expletive deleted]. Replace that with SVG - See: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/comparison_flash_svg.html > I'd love to see Microsoft support it. They have to. How could they not? They support .pcx, Paradox, WordPerfect from 8 years ago, every proprietary format you can name. It would look too suspicious. SVG is such an obvious format for vector graphics, it's already a great format over .swf or whatever *before* taking into account its XML characteristics. > Those two hopes may mark me as a ridiculous > optimist, but SVG is really cool stuff. I don't think that's optimistic. Then again I'm one of those absurd people that thinks XSLT will be used on the client... > There's been some concern expressed that SVG is not > too far off from XSL-FO (as in Formatting Objects > Considered Harmful [1]), but I'm happy to see a > solid vector graphics-based presentation language > using an XML vocabulary. [1] - http://www.myopera.com/people/howcome/1999/foch.html Yes, that's a valid concern (though he notes that over current graphic formats SVG is a step up), and again it's something that client-side XSLT can help with. Max http://www.siliconpublishing.org/svg.asp
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