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SVG 1.1 Becomes W3C Proposed Recomendation
openbear writes "From the w3c web site... W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers."
SVG isn't going to replace Flash anymore than Flash is going to replace binary games (i.e. We're not going to play Doom 3 as a Flash game): Each has its place. Having said that, in some situations SVG will supplant Flash were it's a better choice: For instance for charts and graphs the vector graphics capabilities of SVG are absolutely first-rate, and it's unnecessary to resort to a proprietary tool such as Flash when dynamically generated XML will work stunningly. The SVG standard is extremely comprehensive even in its 1.0 form, so I don't see very many ways that it can be coopted by anyone.
It's good that a new recommendation is coming out, but people are still trying to get SVG 1.0 right.
For example, try http://www.croczilla.com/svg with your stock IE, mozilla or netscape 6. It doesn't work.
Adobe has an example to show their attempt at http://www.adobe.com/svg/demos/css_layout which only works in IE. But it takes up more CPU power to fade a new squares than flash does.
I am not sure if the world is ready for 1.0 much less 1.1.
Here's a great page that compares SVG vs. Flash.
Here's two good reasons why you want to implement SVG instead of Flash:
SVG is a standard, Flash is proprietary.
SVG can be indexed and searched, Flash can't.
SVG can do more than flash. The only reason why everyone is not using SVG right now is because there are no "flash like" tools. SVG doesn't need to be "frame" bound like flash and has a better scripting language than flash (emcascript or javascript).
So SVG is better than flash, will be better than flash but currently it's tools are immature to compete head to head with flash but for instance if Macromedia was smart they'd provide SVG exporting of their flash stuff s.t they won't be thrown out of the market due to a new file format. Oh and don't trust the whack jobs supporting that PHP swf file format thing. That's a dead end, it's time to rely on something open.
It would be even nicer if there were Linux graphic editors that could export SVG...
May we never see th
Wow, I was half joking and you seem to be spoiling for a fight, lol.
Linux is what you want it to be...you want a point and click OS with easy installs, no problem use KDE and front end to apt or rpm.
But, since you are an A+ computer student, wouldn't you agree that it is important to understand what is going on underneath that pretty GUI to make all that magic happen?
Let's suppose that you've graduated and have your degree. You land a lucrative job and are happily going about your work until all of sudden one day something goes wrong and your machine won't launch the desktop. What are you going to do?
Now don't you think you'd look pretty silly having all that sheepskin hanging on your wall proclaiming you a computer expert, yet you can't even edit a simple command line script to fix your own computer?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.