Andreas Neuman has a pretty great summary of the differences between SVG and Flash. I know if you have any suggested changes to this he'd welcome feedback. I think it clearly shows the superiority of SVG in the long term: the only current obstacle to SVG is the installed base of browsers/viewers.
I don't agree that the SVG viewer is flaky: the implementation is proprietary, but SVG itself is an open standard and this free software lets one "View Source" which alone far surpasses Flash: the "View Source" aspect of HTML is in large part responsible for its success as a language authored effectively by a large number of people.
The Adobe Viewer is only one of many ways to enjoy SVG. The Batik project is a fantastic Open Source implementation.
There is a Mozilla build by Alex Fritze that facilitates inline SVG (something that the Adobe Viewer is just starting to support in IE). That is an example of a "single current browser supporting SVG natively"... of course it's not yet in the main Mozilla build.
But SVG is not just for browsers: it can run in applications and on the server. It is far more than just a replacement for Flash...
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Andreas Neuman has a pretty great summary of the differences between SVG and Flash. I know if you have any suggested changes to this he'd welcome feedback. I think it clearly shows the superiority of SVG in the long term: the only current obstacle to SVG is the installed base of browsers/viewers.
I don't agree that the SVG viewer is flaky: the implementation is proprietary, but SVG itself is an open standard and this free software lets one "View Source" which alone far surpasses Flash: the "View Source" aspect of HTML is in large part responsible for its success as a language authored effectively by a large number of people.
The Adobe Viewer is only one of many ways to enjoy SVG. The Batik project is a fantastic Open Source implementation.
There is a Mozilla build by Alex Fritze that facilitates inline SVG (something that the Adobe Viewer is just starting to support in IE). That is an example of a "single current browser supporting SVG natively"... of course it's not yet in the main Mozilla build.
But SVG is not just for browsers: it can run in applications and on the server. It is far more than just a replacement for Flash...
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