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."

Comments

Re:This Should Be Interesting

[LOLLinux]

It seems you must be confusing XAML with VML.

Re:This Should Be Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

You do know that Adobe has stopped supporting their SVG plug-in, right? It was all fine and dandy until they bought Macromedia and didn't need a Flash competitor anymore.

dom

Re:Oh thank you so very much.... NOT

[denis-The-menace]

It was probably about getting OOXML to become an ISO standard that only MS could comply with...

"In order to gain ISO approval, Microsoft needed to garner the requisite number of “P” votes, and the influx of many new “P” voting members, most of whom were in favour of OOXML, was striking."

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft-ooxml-and-iso