Hi David, I wouldn't hold up too much hope based on the namespace document. I saw this when it was first published in March, but I doubt if this has much value as a hint about MS's future intentions regarding bundling SVG support within IE. In fact, it might lead one to think that they are expecting the community to provide an SVG plugin (i.e., ASV or replacement for ASV) due to their examples of integrating SVG support via binary behaviors. I hope MS has finally decided to stop its policy of slowing the Open Web by holding back support for SVG (and attempting to force people to use Silverlight instead and thereby lock people into their platform).
Incidentally, OpenAjax Alliance polled leading Ajax developers about what features are most important in future browsers and "2D vector graphics" was the top request. * http://www.openajax.org/runtime/wiki/Summary_Report Just to be clear, the Ajax community wants *native* SVG support (and Canvas) in IE, like what we are seeing in Opera and Webkit. (Mozilla appear to be finally completing its support for SVG, including SMIL.) Jon Ferraiolo "ddailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] rnet.net> To Sent by: <svg-developers@yahoogroups.com> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc hoogroups.com Subject [svg-developers] Microsoft beta 07/29/2008 06:55 namespace and SVG PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoogroups.com Sam Ruby brought this to the attention of the HTML WG http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=ie8whitepapers&ReleaseId=573 The HTML WG has enjoyed a recent debate about SVG support within HTML for some weeks now-- see the discussion leading from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jul/0179.html among other places. I don't claim to know what many of the issues really are, but I know there are people who hang out here who may not hang out there, so I thought you might find it to be of interest. David [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 [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/
