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Mozilla Gets (Beta) Native SVG support

Posted by timothy on from the so-check-it-out-and-complain-constructively dept.

Rushuru writes "Mozilla is getting a beta native SVG support. Previously one had to use 3rd party plugins such as that from Adobe, and they only worked on windows. SVG is similar in scope to Flash, but it is a W3 recommendation (i.e. a standard) and uses an open format. The project page has more info."

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  1. Bandwith eating useless animations by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 0, Troll
    Great. This will breed even more of those.

    What's wrong with static, text and jpgs only pages?

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  2. Re:SVG/Flash by Karamchand · · Score: 1, Troll

    Read this: The Document Object Model (DOM) for SVG, which includes the full XML DOM, allows for straightforward and efficient vector graphics animation via scripting.

    That's like saying you can make animations with HTML just because you can access HTML tags through the DOM and script them.

  3. From now on it's just a question of time... by Krapangor · · Score: 0, Troll
    until Mozilla needs a seperate partition due to code bloat.
    Anybody here ever considered to push out a RFC for:
    OSML - Operation System Markup Language !
    OSML is a markup language which describes entire operating systems. A OSML capable browser can run any existing operationg system just by processing the approriate OSML files.

    Well, you could do the same by TMML (Turing Machine Markup Language), but I have some doubt that people would use it.

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