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SVG

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:38 am
by onion2k
Last night, due to my lack of any social life at all, I started learning some SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) code. It's pretty cool. It's certainly very powerful. I imagine that, for charts and graphs, it's about the best thing available at the moment. The quality of the eventual image is leagues above anything GIF, JPEG or PNG can output for the same filesize. It's built into Firefox by default now. In fact, apart from the render speed being a bit slow for complicated images, I can't really see anything against it.

So why doesn't anyone use it?

EDIT: Just to show off a bit ... here's an example of something I made: http://www.ooer.com/onion/autograph_1.svg

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:09 am
by feyd
The standard is a bit new and since browsers don't have a viewer installed by default it's harder to justify for many.

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:34 pm
by Kieran Huggins
cool pic!

IE7 does NOT support SVG - it must use a plug-in. Unfortunately the most widely used plug-in is Adobe's SVG plug-in, which is being pulled by Q1 2008. Some people report that it gets installed with Reader, others contradict this.

I guess they're worried about competition with their other product: flash. :-(

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:03 pm
by onion2k
How disappointing.

Still ... there's hope in the form of Canvas! http://www.ooer.com/autograph/canvas/