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Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the unlisted-options-involved-pornography dept.

Coach Wei writes "Community voting results and a summary report have been published from OpenAjax Alliance's recent "community wishlist for future browsers" effort. When the voting closed on July 13th, 222 people participated in this open community initiative, with 143 people voted, 55 feature requests being written up, and contribution from many industry leaders. The voting indentified and prioritized 37 features. The top 10 are related to vector graphics, security, performance, layout, rich text editing, Comet, audio and video. Among all the feature requests, 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics is clearly the most desired feature by the community. It received most votes (110 people voted for it), and highest total score (over 10% higher than the second feature request). Looks like that it is time for all browsers, in particular, IE, to seriously consider supporting standards-based vector graphics."

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  1. Re:"Community" ? by mdm-adph · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm also trying to figure out what the "particularly Internet Explorer" comment meant. Not that I read the article..

    I'd assume it's a stab at IE's very poor Canvas graphics support (something I've heard about). I don't work with graphics so I wouldn't know for sure, however.

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  2. Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? by mdm-adph · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Never said you were. ;)

    And yes, you can open an app in a new window. No history problems.

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  3. Re:"Community" ? by cgranade · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, Microsoft was first on something, as they have been with many things. That doesn't change the fact, though, that when it comes to following other people's ideas and implementing standards, Microsoft's policy seems to be a firm "no." Web developers better than I could give you a very long list of standards unsupported by MS. My pet peeve is XHTML. Yes, I know, they say they support it, but only if you send the wrong MIME type. That means that other browsers will try to render it as HTML (no X) and will choke on it. Because of that, you have to write server-side code to detect user agents and change the MIME type to match. Very, very frustrating.

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