Hi Francis,
I wish I shared your optimism. MS have a history of ignoring international standards and coming up with their own extremely similar but MS-only "standard". They have shown no interest whatsoever in supporting SVG. It's way, way too late to even think that including SVG in IE 8 is even a remote possibility and they have not indicated that they will be supporting it in IE 9+ as far as I am aware. As a Java programmer I have lived with their repeated and blatant attempts to kill off the language only to come up with C# which is extremely similar but, of course, only runs in an .NET environment. Perhaps this has coloured my judgement but I really believe that SVG is just another Java/MS story... Cheers, -JCT From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Hemsher Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 22:44 To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] Re: MS acquires ASV3 to bundle in IE8? John C. Turnbull wrote: > > Excellent suggestion Francis! > > > But... it will never happen. Why not? One word: Silverlight. Why support > SVG when you can lock your customers in to a proprietary MS technology? > Hi John, Yes, it is apparent to all that the XAML/Silverlight folks at MS have been caught with their hand in the SVG cookie jar. However, it seems to me that the IE development team has trancended the strategy to kill SVG. There are just too many requests for native SVG support in IE. I feel sure that native SVG will be part of IE8+ However, this bundle with ASV3 would be the best signifier that the IE Development Team currently recognizes SVG as a required feature. -Francis [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/
