- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:11:51 -0400
- To: ddailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, folks- Just to clarify, when I said "more functional", I meant specifically for the following three features: 1) SVG Fonts: the full profile of SVG Fonts, i.e. SVG fonts with arbitrary content, rather than simple path syntax 2) Declarative Animation: ASV had fairly good (though not great) SMIL support; performance could have been better, but they had a fairly full feature set. Firefox may have SMIL support, and there is interesting stuff going on with CSS animation as well. 3) Filters: ASV had fairly complete filter support, unsurprisingly, since many of the filter primitives come from Illustrator and Photoshop. Firefox has made a lot of progress here, actually. I don't think IE9 will support any of these three, but it (and the other browsers) will do other things better than ASV did, like HTML integration and hardware acceleration; but these areas of improvement aren't the features at risk for legacy content, by definition. Note: Opera has fairly complete SVG support, so I'm less worried there; WebKit also has pretty good SVG support, though Android turns it off for now. :( So, the question remains... how to best manage the transition? Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs ddailey wrote (on 4/26/10 2:27 PM): > Doug suggested that I might want to raise this with the SVG Working > Group. I summarize my question since it was originally more verbose than > needed. Doug's reply follows. > > Given that IE/ASV has such strong SVG support (including a very complete > implementation of filters and animation) do you know if Microsoft has > any plans to allow backing in and out of IE9? > > But here's the reasoning for my question: I will be reluctant to upgrade > campus labs, personal machines, or computers of clients to IE9, if it is > a major step backwards from IE/ASV, though I will clearly be interested > in doing testing and benchmarks to compare it with the other five major > browser implementations. In the past it has been very difficult to > concurrently run two different versions of IE on the same machine for > testing purposes, or, as I recall, to back in and out of different > plugins (Renesis v ASV, for example). > > regards > David > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Schepers" <doug@schepers.cc> > To: "ddailey" <ddailey@zoominternet.net> > Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:39 PM > Subject: Re: [svg-developers] no SMIL support in IE9 [was: ANN: SVG > Pastie.] > > >> Hi, David- >> >> A legitimate concern and one that should be expressed on www-svg... to >> wit, how do we transition to the FF3.7/IE9 world from the more >> functional ASV world? Should there be UA negotiation to make this easier? >> >> Regards- >> -Doug >
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