A nice discussion .. hard to refrain to add my point of view ... Obviously ASV is widely deployed on intranets (and to some extent on internet also) of companies to help building really useful graphic applications.
I think the reason is SVG is way superior (and much simpler to implement) to Flash when it comes to real practical problems of interacting with data and no fancy gradient or animations stuff is needed. For these practical applications though we need a performant viewer (able to hand dynamic interaction for svg of size typically over 500 Ko note that on a standard workstation even ASV is too slow for this when the svg is over say 1.5 Mo) ASV has offered this for free and that was great. Unfortunately for adobe (as I see it) the combination of public format + great simplicity of SVG has made commercial authoring tool no really necessary to build such applications ... I am completely certain that companies for whom we deploy this kind of applications would pay (reasonably priced) licences for a performant viewer. So why does Adobe does not goes that way ? I do not think that would compete with Flash Best JD ----- Original Message ----- From: pschonefeld To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:29 PM Subject: [svg-developers] Re: Announcement: Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer Hi Pat, The organisation that I am currently doing work for has asked me to bring to the attention of Adobe their interest in SVG with a view to seeking (perhaps off-line) information on Adobe's roadmap for SVG support. This large organisation is currently running five business systems that utilise ASV as the primary means for rendering spatial information visualisations. External customers use two of these systems. In addition to these five systems, there is a product under development that utilises the browser plug-in as part of its graphical user interface. As I am sure you appreciate, this organisation is very interested in maintaining an environment of support for the Adobe SVG Viewer or a reliable alternative. We look forward to your reply. Regards Peter Schonefeld SVG Developer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
