- From: Max Dunn <maxdunn@siliconpublishing.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:58:13 -0800
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, "'Vadim Plessky'" <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Cc: "'David Woolley'" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, <www-svg@w3.org>
> I guess it isn't just Adobe - they have the most heavily promoted > SVG stuff (plugin, authoring and export in lots of products) as far > as I can see, but BitFlash, the Apache project, IBM, Sun, Mozilla, > Corel, Amaya, SodiPodi (another open source project), sketch (and > another), and others are all producing editors and/or browsers. It is simply amazing what has been done with SVG so far, see for example: http://www.jeffsouthard.com/demos/grove/index.html and the maps in: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-batik/samples/ and the fractals at: http://www.pinkjuice.com/SVG/XSLT/fractals/ ... > In addition Semantic Web tools such as RDF author and GraphViz > are generating SVG output - it is useful because it can include > representations of complex data in ways that are nice for people > to read, and can include the bits that machines can read and > process easily. And the interactivity in the SVG and with the HTML (or ideally XHTML) is essential to many applications. See for example: http://www.carto.net/andi.n/about_vienna_svg.html and http://www.xml.com/2000/03/22/style/parts-catalog.htm To date few if any of the interesting things that have been done with SVG have resembled Flash. I think for tiny devices a scaled back spec makes sense, but compared to the size of typical browsers and operating systems of Today there is nothing bloated about Adobe's SVG Viewer on a PC. Rather than put a crippled form of SVG in web browsers, perhaps Adobe should put a rudimentary XHTML browser/XSLT Processor into their SVG Viewer. Max
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