Re: SVG - A thought

> BTW: What is also quite visible from your list is absence of Microsoft.
> What are in fact Microsoft plans concerning SVG?
> So far, MS bundles Macromedia Flash plugin with every copy of MS IE, and this 

I note that they also don't bundle Acrobat and that Adobe is, to me,
the apparent prime mover for SVG.  I draw some conclusiions from that.

> Without wide availability of SVG plugins (or other form of SVG support), this 
> wonderful specification/standard will fail (or go to niche markets) 

This is why I tend to qualify reservations about SVG by "if it becomes
widely adopted".   I would go further than plugins and say that unless
it is included directly in IE, or, at the very least, a reccommended
update in Windows Update, it will not achieve general market penetration.

Received on Thursday, 20 December 2001 02:37:51 UTC