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Second Annual SVG Open Conference

Posted by timothy on from the lines-and-angles dept.

michael bolger points to this announcement that "SchemaSoft and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will host the 2nd annual SVG Open Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Vancouver, British Columbia from July 13-18, 2003 at the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina. The SVG Open 2003 Conference and Exhibition is a forum for software developers, Web developers, graphic artists and other technical specialists to exchange ideas, methods and advances related to Web graphics."

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  1. Re:Flash? by Sithgunner · · Score: 5, Informative

    From what I understand, SVG is superior to flash because,

    1. Not only human, but machines(web robots etc) can read information on graphical content of a web page if SVG is used, because the file is presented in a human readable file as xml text file, opposed to flash delivered in binary format which you can only know what it is by loading it on specific applications.

    2. File size is notably smaller compared to images presented as a binary format, because the rules of the graphic/animation is written as a text file. Although if you embed an existing image file, that will make the entire SVG bigger than just lines of xml code, of course.

    3. SVG is an open and standardized format, so many applications may adopt the format(Editor, viewer, converter etc).

    4. After all, it's XML :) Interoperability, it has.