Hello Fulio, Having just gotten back from SVG Open, my impression is that the future is very bright. Perhaps the old timers would have a different set of impressions, but as a first time attendee several things stuck out in my mind.
a) the cell phone folks are really into it. I believe Zack Zhou of Qualcomm reported that 300 million cell phones (someone can correct me if I got the number wrong, I hope) are currently enabled with SVG. My take on this: The content is coming since the platform is already there. So, to some extent, it doesn't really matter if IE ever supports this stuff or not. If they don't, they will simply lose market share and become irrelevant. b) Opera's new and soon to come SVG support is pretty darned impressive. A developer will indeed want to put HTML thingies inside SVG documents with <foreignObject/> and to apply real-time filters, to rotate, stretch and mask streaming video through the <video/> element and have CSS work seamlessly with XSLT and AJAX fetching and transforming weather, demographic and geo data, satellite, camera and entertainment feeds, with distributed scripts, data and processing. c) A group of us westerners, slightly jet-lagged and dazzled by the culture and technology of Tokyo, emerged wide-eyed and blinking from a train at Shibuya station led by the ever-fearless Chaals. We found our way to a kiosk containing a 1 meter by two meter interactive, zoomable map done in SVG. There it was, in real life, guiding real people around a real city, albeit a rather futuristic city. If the folks from Microsoft or Adobe ever find themselves lost in Tokyo, they will quickly change their minds about SVG support. David Dailey http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/ At 05:22 PM 9/9/2007, you wrote: >Just wondering. I was away from this group for quite a long time, >and just came back today. The future of svg was warmly discussed >last time, due to support to it by different browsers. A key topic >then seems to be that after adobe stops asv, what the IE browser will do. > >svg is a great tool. I hope it is now more popular than before, and >will be widely supported by all browsers. Thanks for information in >this regard. > >Fulio Pen > > >--------------------------------- >Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone >who knows. >Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > >[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/
