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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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    1. Re:Bandwith eating useless animations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      and instantly break compatability with the older machines out there....

      SVG has some great potential, and it will be nice in a couple of years.

      until then, your thoughts are as bad as a fricking IE web page designer....

      SVG SUCKS for handicap access sites. and most web jcokeys aren't smart enough to put good tags seperately or build secondary pages for those getting the page read to them by a speech box or the braille box.

      but hey, who give a crap about the blind..... right?

  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. More needless bloat. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Great. As if the Mozilla install wasn't bloated enough.

    And the thing is still horrendously crash prone.

  4. 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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