SVG On the Rise

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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Of course if it has to actually work...

[GCP]

...and you need to deliver professional-quality on a real business kind of deadline, then you should use Flash.

Otherwise, if you're trying to do something in-house, where you control your own customers' client setup and they have to take whatever features you give them, and you don't have any pressing deadlines to meet so you can use immature tools or just a raw text editor to build your multimedia presentation, then SMIL/SVG might be a good way to make a statement they'll never forget: that political correctness is more important to you than end-user benefits.