Vector Graphics On The Web?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday August 8, 2000 @05:47PM from the what's-in-use-and-what's-not? dept.

Rob asks: "Bitmaps take up valuable bandwidth and are displayed at different sizes depending on your screen resolution, but Flash animations are big and clunky. Will the increasing take-up of alternative means of browsing (PDAs, mobile phones, TVs, ...) with corresponding variations in screen display and connection speed lead to the emergence of a compact, widely used standard for vector graphics? What are the obstacles which need to be overcome? What vector formats are already in use on the Web?"

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SVG by Trongy · 2000-08-08 13:37 · Score: 3

The world wide web consortium (w3c) has anointed
the xml basd svg (scalable vector graphics) format.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8

Adobe are supporting SVG.
They have a browser plugin to view svg graphics for windows and mac. (Mozilla also supports svg)
Adobe's drawing products have svg output.

http://www.adobe.com/svg/

Some other links:
http://www.blackdirt.com/graphics/svg/

http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg/index.html