Wikipedia CTO speaks on SVG

Brian Vibber Chief Technical Officer Wikipedia on SVG:

Scripts are forbidden for safety, which pretty much destroys  
animation or
interactive features.

A 10x or 20x increase in bandwidth (and therefore cost) pretty much  
demolishes
remaining alleged advantages for our purposes for now. This remains a  
very
low-priority, might-be-neat-someday issue.

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Perhaps someone with greater diplomatic skills than me could read and  
comment on the enhancement bug:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3593

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet