- From: Randy George <rkgeorge@cadmaps.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:42:05 -0600
- To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, On the imminent demise of Adobe's ASV option for IE/SVG I think open source, web services, and Microsoft all see declarative XML vector capability as the future of GUI for both the browser and the OS. Possibly it's the slow speed of the w3c schema process that contributes to the perception that SVG is inadequate. At any rate, Microsoft extended svg to meet their needs with XAML, Google adopted their own client rendering for Google Earth and KML, while the open source community is working with w3c SVG. When I look at the lay of the land I see some missing features in SVG. Microsoft 2007 OS/Browser XAML 3D graphics acceleration widgets GoogleEarth now Web service KML 3D graphics acceleration Mozilla/Linux now OS/Browser SVG 2D cpu graphics Opera now Browser SVG 2D cpu graphics AdobeASV farewell Browser SVG 2D cpu graphics Mobile now Browser SVGt 2D cpu graphics Renesis.. future? Browser SVG 2D hardware graphics acceleration It looks to me like 3D and hardware acceleration will become defacto standards for rich clients sometime in late 2007. SVG1.2 adds some features to help with widget libraries. Switching to a graphics accelerator library could quickly close the gap on hardware acceleration, but 3D isn't as easily handled. w3c SVG is still on draft SVG1.2. Is there work behind the scenes on SVG 1.3-2.0? If not does Mozilla/Linux see a problem that may force them to an extended SVG schema or even XAML? Anyone else wondering about this? Randy
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