RE: [xml-dev] Microsoft and vector graphics (Was:XDocs and XForms?)

From
Gert Baudoncq <>
To
Paul Prescod <>,
Date
2002-10-17T14:34:13Z
ID
<>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Microsoft and vector graphics (Was:XDocs and XForms?)
Hi,

'It is too bad that the SVG world is so dependent on a single 
closed-source implementation.'

Have a look at http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-Implementations.htm8
There is clearly more then the Adobe SVG viewer.

Gert

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:] 
Sent: donderdag 17 oktober 2002 16:25
To: 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Microsoft and vector graphics (Was:XDocs and
XForms?)


 wrote:
> In a message dated 17/10/2002 09:55:05 GMT Daylight Time,
 
> writes:
> 
> 
> 
>>The situation as I see it is more like MS has found a convinience in 
>>Adobe implementing the standard in IE for them. 
> 
> 
> Manos,
> 
> 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



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