- From: Koen Martens <svg@metro.cx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:18:40 +0100
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- CC: HP <hpdramstad@hotmail.com>, www-svg@w3.org
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > > Ensure that your web application is standards based, and it 'should' > work in more than one SVG viewer. > > In fact it should work in all standards compliant viewers, however at > the present time not all viewers comply with any one standard, and many > viewers for good reasons support particular functionality in addition to > their chosen standard. The problem is, there are a lot of applications out there, i fear, that are geared towards adobe svg viewer browser plugin. AFAIK, this is the only plugin that works on several platforms, and directly from the browser. None of the other viewers I know of work on most browsers / most platforms (eg. firefox, epiphany, ie on mac, linux and ms). My concern is, that with the drop of adobe's support for svg (and their implementation), a lot of people will abandon svg just like we are currently contemplating doing. I myself prefer to use svg, because it is a w3c standard, but i'm not alone in my team. A further problem is that browser native support for svg is non-existant / immature. This makes it hard to port existing svg applications to those platforms (or even impossible in the case of ie). Best, Koen Martens -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/
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