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Re: SVG interoperability


svg dead
On Jun 19, 2006, at 13:58, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>> Not too worrying no, at least not yet. We'll see what comes of
>> Microsoft's noises around SVG.
>
> I meant worrying for IE users relying on a plugin which you call a  
> dead
> product. Of course, only Adobe can tell, bu what would happen if this
> plugin stopped working with the next version of IE and/or Windows?

It's dead in the sense that it won't be updated (unless Adobe makes a  
serious change in strategy, which can always happen if the past is  
any indication). I highly doubt that it'll stop working in the next  
version of IE given that IE is generally very big on compatibility  
for this sort of thing.

> If your feeling is that this is a dead product (which I personally  
> can't
> tell), is it realistic for a web developer to roll out an application
> that heavily rely on it for 80% of his/her users?

No, I don't think it's very realistic to design anything targeting  
ASV today, but of course you may wish to ask in SVG fora as other  
folks may have other ideas. What I would do would be to target a  
mobile profile of SVG, and insert some conditional magic to bring in  
SmilScript so that animation works in Firefox. But in case it wasn't  
clear already, I have a rather heavy mobile slant :)

>> In the same way that previous browsers made using HTML, CSS, or
>> Ecmascript much worse.
>
> Not exactly in the same way IMO. People using HTML, CSS or Ecmascript
> could hope that things would be incrementally improving. That doesn't
> seem to be the case here with Firefox 1.5.

That's no true, when Netscape 4 came out the Web was set many years  
back!

-- 
Robin Berjon
    Senior Research Scientist
    Expway, http://expway.com/



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