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SVG On the Rise

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the amazing-scalable-graphics dept.

AShocka writes "The W3C has just released Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 as W3C Recommendations. W3C Fellow Dean Jackson has an article, on O'Reilly Network titled SVG On the Rise, in reply to Jacek Artymiak's article SWF Is Not Flash (and Other Vectored Thoughts). Also check out Dean's SVG answer to Powerpoint presentations at Visualising the Semantic Web in SVG."

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  1. flash - SVG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone know whether Macromedia Flash can export to SVG or - if not - any such features are planned for a future version?

    Good kudos to Macromedia if they would.

  2. SVG && Printing by schlpbch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As all graphics are vector based, SVG also has the potential to provide crystal clear, high resolution print-outs instead of the blurred GIFs (or PNG if anyone cares) we get to today.

  3. SodiPodi by jamesots · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SodiPodi is an SVG editor for Linux and (recently) Windows. It's not complete yet, but from the look of it it should be pretty good when it is.

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  4. SVG not (yet?) for presentation by digitect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I took a quick look at SVG for a proposal. It required animation with syncronized audio narration so SVG wasn't a possibility. I still don't see that SVG supports this and can't imagine SVG to be even remotely as useful as SWF in the realm of multi-media presentation. Sure it makes sense in more technical applications like mapping or calculated interactive diagrams, but I don't fear we'll be subjected to a rash of slow-loading SVG page banners any time soon. Bit of a shame, actually.

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  5. SVG Support & Mozilla by ukryule · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is a Mozilla project working on SVG support, but it's not yet seriously usable.

    It also suffers from a licensing problem: it uses libart, which is licensed under the LGPL, which (for some reason) means it can't be included as standard in mozilla builds.

    There is also an Adobe plugin, which does claim to work with mozilla, but it crashes more often than not ...

  6. Re:For idiots like me - by Allen+Varney · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Other posts in this thread have listed some disadvantages of SVG, but omitted that a browser plug-in fully implementing the spec weighs in at several megs. This is in contrast to the Flash player, which is still under 500K in the latest version. Not an issue for broadband users, but they are still a minority in the Web world.