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Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development
rossendryv writes "After many years of fighting against the standard, Microsoft announced they are joining the WC3's SVG working group to help with the development of SVG. 'We recognize that vector graphics are an important component of the next-generation Web platform,' said Patrick Dengler, senior program manager on Microsoft's Internet Explorer team in a blog post."
I don't really know how the W3C is organized, but shouldn't there be some protection against allowing organizations who are openly hostile toward a technology from sitting on the committee? Isn't this just common sense?
Who do they think they are? The UN?
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Someone needs to slip little boxes of Tic-Tacs in Microsoft's pockets.
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True Slashdot developers bang rocks against a bare wire to transmit 1's and 2's to an IBM 7 track magtape (zero hadn't been invented yet). Who needs this fancy-smancy graphical interface crap anyway?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Until Microsoft commits to supporting SVG in IE it is hard to see Microsoft's supposed support of the standard as anything but disingenuous.
Well we certainly have a right to be cynical, given past events, but odd things happen. For example Sony has started supporting SD!?
One question though, is there any BSD styled SVG implementation that could be grafted onto a browser?
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True Slashdot developers bang rocks against a bare wire to transmit 1's and 2's to an IBM 7 track magtape (zero hadn't been invented yet).
I thought for a zero the developers banged one of the rocks against their head, instead of the other rock. After enough low-value long ints, they are promoted to editor.
Or in XAML: <Laughter Voice="{Binding Type:Evil}" EmbraceExtendExtinguish.Stage="Embrace"><Intonation.Type>Manical</Intonation.Type></Laughter>.
Maybe, but that little chart is in Flash.
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moderation now serves me to mark postings which were compelling enough for someone to moderate them.
But how does that rhyme with the notion that all things are good in moderation?
Yes, you can in fact groan out loud at that one.
if fully implementing the current SVG standard was a requirement then it would be a pretty damn empty meeting room for the standards commitee.
Section 1.2.5.3.2.8.200.1
Entity SILVERLIGHT_30034509, type STREAM
Contains an open, standard set of Silverlight objects for interpretation.
Entity SILVERLIGHT_FIXERUPPER, type BOOLEAN
To work around bugs in Silverlight.
I'm amazed it took 8 whole minutes of comments for someone to utter this, and more amazed the article wasn't already tagged as such. I really hope they don't put too much of a dent in things; I'm rather fond of SVG.
(Mafia voice:) "That's a nice graphics standard you got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
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