On Thursday, February 17, 2005, 11:37:41 PM, Eddie wrote:
EV> Dear fellow SVG developers and enthusiasts, EV> Prominent Silicon Valley blogger (and recently hired by Yahoo's mobile EV> division), Russll Beattie, is really excited about this Flash Lite EV> traffic application demonstation on his mobile phone. EV> Check out his blog post at: EV> http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008314.html EV> In his post, note that he states this about SVG: EV> "Now, in deference to my friends at Adobe, I have to say I'm still EV> waiting for the SVG equivalent to this sort of app. I know SVG-T is on EV> all the new Vodafone phones, but I have yet to play with an app in EV> person. To which one might reply, you should have been at the 3GS expo this year. or, indeed, last year, since it was already on phones last year. EV> When are we going to see an SVG plug-in for Series 60? Last month. Nokia Series 60 release 3 incluses SVGT support and JSR 226 support. There was a demo at 3GSM on the Nokia booth where powerpoint files on a server were converted to SVGT and viewed on a Nokia series 60 phone using its built-in SVGT capabilities. Similar to what Sharp and Bitflash were showing last year. Ne EV> Someone EV> tell the guys at BitFlash to start selling their SVG player to the EV> public, damnit." On phones, especially mass market phones, its whats installed when you buy it that counts. The general public neither wants to or is able to install software. (ring tones and logos, yes. software, no. too much support cost). -- Chris Lilley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
