- From: Koen Martens <svg@metro.cx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:20:06 +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). Especially so because of the scripting going on behind the scenes. I am curious about other opinions on this issue (or maybe it is not an issue for you at all?). 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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