Seems that the problem in this thread is that silverlight would be taking over SVG.
We can certainly regret it, but not be astonished: the most advanced useable version of SVG (Opera + SVG 1.2) still has no basic features like sound or download status bars (apparently). This still makes of SVG a very unuseable language, compared for instance to flash which offered these features from the very start, thus ensuring a quick start and strong popularity. So Microsoft is playing easy with its silverlight, which will probably offer these features from the very first versions, in an effort to compete, not with a nearby inexistent SVG, but with flash. So I think that the efforts must go toward providing full standard, fully compliant and non buggy SVG browsers, not in 5 years, but in some weeks. Also, to avoid a very steep learning curve, a forum like this one should provide snipets of basic coding functions, for instance how to do a download bar (I started a thread on this). Only after, people will start to write applications in SVG, and a wealth of uses asking for more implementations. This will also be profitable to the standard-compliants browser community, who will be completelly independent of non-standard languages. If not, we shall remain with flash and silverlight sharing the useful applications, and SVG remaining forever a beautiful project. ------------------------------------ ----- 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/
