- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:39:44 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 9:31a -0500 11/25/97, Eric A. Meyer wrote: >At 1:00 -0500 11/25/97, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: >>I believe there has been intermittent grumbling about the lack of support >>for CGM in Web browsers for some time now. Would a formal plea >from the >>W3C help things? I don't know, but I'm inclined to doubt it. > > Hard to say. I recall a proposed format called the Simple Vector Format >(SVF), which seemed to be on some sort of track to adoption and then >disappeared. It's too bad, too, since it seemed like a nice compact little >format, although I remember beefing even then about the fact that CGM would >be a better solution. I don't know if the W3C ever seriously considered >it; I was a young'n then and ignorant of the Ways of the Standards. >Perhaps someone here remembers better than I...? What I remember is that the company which made the vector format was unwilling to port it to MacOS. QuickDraw3D supports vector images, and then some... :)
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