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Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development

Posted by timothy on from the speak-friend-and-enter dept.

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."

2 of 292 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This Should Be Interesting by LOLLinux · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems you must be confusing XAML with VML.

  2. Re:This Should Be Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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