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> In a message dated 17/10/2002 09:55:05 GMT Daylight Time,
> writes:
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>>The situation as I see it is more like MS has found a convinience in
>>Adobe implementing the standard in IE for them.
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> Manos,
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> The practical problem for users of SVG is that Adobe speedily implemented
> *most* of SVG 1.0 in the Adobe SVG Viewer then, more or less, **just
> stopped** development. Different SVG developers are affected differently by
> different omissions.
>
> There is certainly most of the functionality present in ASV version 3 but it
> would be really nice to have a complete SVG 1.0 implementation.
It is too bad that the SVG world is so dependent on a single
closed-source implementation. It would be more healthy if there were an
active community around another native implementation like the one
embedded in Mozilla.
Paul Prescod
