- From: Eric A. Meyer <eam3@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:31:41 -0500
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
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...? -- Eric A. Meyer - eam3@po.cwru.edu - http://www.cwru.edu/home/eam3.html Hypermedia Systems Manager Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/dms/dms.html Case Western Reserve University http://www.cwru.edu/
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