I don't think you need to convince anyone at Mozilla of the need for better SVG support. The issues holding things up are technical issues and a lack of contributors. There's only one guy (from IBM) working on it full time and two or three contributors working on it on and off as their spare time allows.
2.0 is *mainly* a release for reworking the UI. Only a few hand picked SVG changes are making it into this release, and SVG declarative animation will definately not be one of them. Mozilla Firefox won't get the majority of the SVG (or other engine) improvements until it's updated to the current development version of the Mozilla Platform/Gecko. That's scheduled for Firefox 3.0 in the first half of 2003, not Firefox 2.0.
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Oops! I meant 2007 of course. :-)
I don't think you need to convince anyone at Mozilla of the need for better SVG support. The issues holding things up are technical issues and a lack of contributors. There's only one guy (from IBM) working on it full time and two or three contributors working on it on and off as their spare time allows.
2.0 is *mainly* a release for reworking the UI. Only a few hand picked SVG changes are making it into this release, and SVG declarative animation will definately not be one of them. Mozilla Firefox won't get the majority of the SVG (or other engine) improvements until it's updated to the current development version of the Mozilla Platform/Gecko. That's scheduled for Firefox 3.0 in the first half of 2003, not Firefox 2.0.