I think, yet to emerge technologies/inventions and market would force them to rethink about SVG. They have lot riding on Flash and PDF and cannot afford to loose out. Hence will be forced to make tough choices. Although Flash is good technology, it has some fundamental limitations. They need an XML based technology, which is MXML/Flex. But, it would be hard for the MXML to compete with Microsoft's MAXL or FireFox's XUL/SVG, with out graphics primitives.
I appreciate if any one can answer this: Does MXML/Flex support primitive XML-graphics instructions, for example, line, rect and circle etc? For example, third party developers (or even custom/in-house application developers) need primitive support to build components and business around their technology. Half-baked solutions never stayed in the market for long term. MXML is half-baked. May be Adobe people reading it, I appreciate, if they could counter this? --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Geoffrey Swenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your post on this just sounds like you hope that Adobe will see the need to > restart work on SVG, but in some way confirms that they have set it aside at > the moment. > > I certainly didn't find the wishy-washy statements by the Adobe people here > to be very encouraging at all. And the long-in-the-tooth 2.5 year- old beta > also speaks volumes about where this is headed. > > My take on it is that the app I have just written will probably have to be > modified later to use XAML or whatever actually becomes the standard. It > looks like there are a lot of contenders for this sort of functionality, and > SVG is only one of them. > > Geoffrey J. Swenson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > paul_willson8 > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:47 AM > To: gee_whiz_bang > Subject: Re: Is Adobe abandoning SVG? > > I think, new technologies emerge next year likely force > Adobe/Macromedia to support the SVG in some form. If they don't, they > would loose substantially or driven out from many web related product > segments. > > For example they may support SVG in MXML/Flex to draw primitive > graphics elements. This may be akin to the way SVG is supported in > Mozilla. I am bit new to MAXML/Flex, but my understanding is that > they don't support primitive XML-statements. Of course, they may have > Action-script-API, but that in not the same. > > They will be forced to support SVG, to counter fully functional XAML > and inline-SVG enabled FireFox. Otherwise, they would loose many > third party component-vendors, and eventually application developers. > > I strongly believe, this would happen, because, I know few things, > such as, stealthy technologies that would help developers build > complex GUI applications than ever possible on Windows or Java/Swing > at fraction of the cost. > > If Adobe employees reading this, please watch out for new technology > announcements (e.g. component based software development > inventions/patents) in the first half of next year. > > Paul > > > --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "gee_whiz_bang" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just installed the ASV 6 beta (from > > http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html ) > > and it looks really good. The antialiasing looks better, and some > > helpful features like cursors are implemented. > > > > The shadow filter I am using looks cleaner as well. > > > > But since the BETA is 2.5 years old, it looks like Adobe's work has > > ground to a halt. As kewl as SVG is, is Adobe giving up on it? > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- 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/
