Thought the BBC's browser support guidelines may help here http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/browser_support.sh tml http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/multimedia_plugins _flash.shtml
As a website funded by the licence fee, it's more important to us that as many people have access to the content than necessarily being at the bleeding edge of technology. IE6 and 7 are both in our Level 1 browser support categorisation which is why SVG is currently a non-goer. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Chetwynd > Sent: 29 November 2010 11:37 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] where is the BBC's SVG or scaleable > vector graphics content? > > two-fold > > 1. There is currently a notion to release government > data, and the > BBC has already included itself in this process by for > instance releasing salaries of certain key executives. > > 2. as already mentioned recent releases of all popular > browsers now > display SVG. > > As it will take the BBC quite some time to integrate SVG into > their creative process, aka lead-in time, is this perhaps a > third reason?? > > regards > > Jonathan Chetwynd > > > On 29 Nov 2010, at 11:07, Stephen Jolly wrote: > > > what are the other reasons why the BBC should be looking > into making > > the change at this point in time? > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
