Hi,
I have been following the SVG discussions for a couple of years now
(and an early adopter as well). However the cry out to Adobe for support
on SVG is quite old. Far too old!!!!
To them it is just another business case. They 've invested some money and
they
want to see ROI now. In other words they need to have a profitable
business model (paying customers!). Aparently they have not.
Another gossip is that SVG could compete with their PDF technology (which is
currently profitable!).
The fact that this discussion lingers on and on, without possitive
feedback from the (historical) biggest investor (or any other company for
that matter)
says more then enough I think.
Unless there is a significant (profitable) demand for this technology
shortly,
MS will set the standard once again (including embedding in IE). Have a look
at all
the early adopters developping SVG tooling. They are not to sure either,
since they
have hastened themselves to provide the MS flavor as well.
And yes of course, there will always be a niche market...
Regards,
Cor Hofman.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Bullotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:08 PM
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [svg-developers] Adobe please distribute SVG Viewer
...MASSIVELY !!!
It certainly seems like Adobe is really pulling back from SVG in a large
way.
No (visible) significant work in the area in quite some time, marginal
interoperability with Firefox, and so on.
Quite a shame. I've always said that native SVG support in the browser
would be the only way to achieve broad acceptance. Any one know a timetable
for native SVG in Firefox?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jérôme Tricand de la Goutte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:08 AM
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [svg-developers] Adobe please distribute SVG Viewer
...MASSIVELY !!!
Hi Renato,
Yes, that's true, it would increase dramaticly the number of desktop with
ASV, and it would be very benefic to SVG. But on the other hand, it reminds
me the story of an operating system (???) distruting its favorite browser
with itsself, reducing dramaticly any concurrent development.
Nowadays, it's true, ASV is mainly THE SVG viewer. But it is only a standard
in fact. I still hope there will be other viewers in the future.
Jérôme Tricand de la Goutte
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