Creator of Web Says Flaw in Internet Explorer
By Reshma Kumar at September 10, 2008 7 Comments|
SVG image files scale without degrading in image quality and resolution. Maps are popularly created as SVG file formats. Currently, the IE browser, including the recently released version8 beta, requires an Adobe plug-in to be downloaded before IE can show SVG objects. The challenge for Microsoft is that come Jan. 1, Adobe will be ending its support of the SVG plug-in and it’s uncle Microsoft supported another format for vector graphics, called Vector Markup Language, or VML. However, the World Wide Web Consortium, which Berners-Lee heads, recommended SVG in 2001. “SVG support is something that we have been evaluating for some time,” Microsoft said in a statement. “We recognize the demand for vector graphics from Web developers, and realize this is a high-priority demand.” (Source: AP) |
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firefox, internet explorer, Microsoft, tim berners-lee, web, web browser
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[...] dmaske wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptInventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, says that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is falling behind other browsers – such as Firefox, Safari, and others – in the support of scalable vector graphics (SVG). … [...]
“We recognize the demand for vector graphics from Web developers, and realize this is a high-priority demand…” but we just don’t care.
Many people didn’t care about Microsoft, but did about its products. But as those get more and more behind and limiting, that’s changing. See for example what no SVG support means, what things IE users are missing out on: http://svg.startpagina.nl
I stopped using explorer 3 years ago and can’t go back. M$ had its chance to control the browser marketing, but this looks like another sign that its on its way out of dominance.
[...] man IE8 wohl dann doch ein wenig ernster wird nehmen müssen, wenn alles was man daran noch zu bemäkeln hat, die mangelnde Unterstützung von SVG ist. Ich steh’ ja auf SVG, denn man kann damit [...]
I think that Microsoft is right to keep VML.
Cause this format is really superior.
This Website testifies:
http://www.svg-vml.net/