--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Francis Hemsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adobe has been both the blessing and a curse to SVG. Without the Adobe > SVG Viewer, SVG would not have had the opportunity to get started. > Initially their efforts were focused exclusively on SVG. In the recent > past they have obviously reduced support of SVG, creating a 2-year > limbo that has held back SVG's capabilities. Currently they have > conflicting interests, via Flash, that will further dilute the future > of SVG if we were to continue to depend on their support. > > We must align ourselves with an strong, established entity that will > support SVG entirely. Any takers...? > > So what else is new? > > To make this work will require the SVG development community organize > strongly and exclusively behind that entity. Essentially we must grab > Microsoft by the balls to assure that SVG is seamlessly incorporated in > future browser editions. Otherwise, we're farting in the wind. > > Francis Nice try, Francis. I don't want to tread on someone's toes, nevertheless, who's supposed to embody your 'we'. In the meantime, the forlorn svg-developers yahoogroup doesn't show up that kind of strong activity of industry relevant bodies in order to grab a certain somebody by the balls;-) Seriously now, did you say that? If people start telling stories about svg being a decent webapplication platform, I'd consider it as a no-brainer for ms. An activex webapp runtime? Ms certainly has better-off and more mature solutions to offer here. If you're talking about vectors for the web (and desktop), they did vml years ago, which is not bad. Vml is a public reasonable close implementation of what one would expect for simple xml vector graphics, whichever adobe didn't like. Although ms's expenses for cloning ie's vml behavior to a svg syntax probably would have been within manageable limits, ms's customer base obviously did not introduce a bill nor conclusive evidence to get into these shoes.
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