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Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9

Posted by timothy on from the what-will-child-services-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SVG has been a published standard for almost a decade. Microsoft has had nothing to do with it, even while every other major browser adopted SVG as a supported format and interface. Just in the last few weeks, though, Microsoft has thrown a surprising amount of its weight behind SVG." This means for IE 9, but it's a start.

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  1. Frist Prost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frist Prost

    1. Re:Frist Prost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      My sister is doing her internship at one of those astroturfing companies in Beijing right now. She's not an actual astroturfer, but she showed me the software her guys use and how they bill the client (one of them was a major American software company specialising in OSs). It's very sophisticated--the client gets to see what has been said about them and the company's response. According to her, they don't flame negative posts on forums, but rather give measured information (from a script) and link to more positive information/reports. Their tactics against trolls are to question them, ask for justification and try to make them seem unreasonable and silly. Their job is more damage control than brainwashing. So the next time you see a well-thought-out, reasonable-sounding response to an obviously-trollish comment on Slashdot remember: IT COULD BE AN ASTROTURFER

    2. Re:Frist Prost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your mother-in-law hangs around with Ballmer watchers

  2. anybody got an N280 Atom? by Blue+Shifted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    please post your java scimark score! we really need some scores for the N280, and amd's L110, thank you.

    http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html