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Considering the standard has been in development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg) since 1999 (10 years ??) this is a sad state... the future of app development?

The article thankfully mentions IE exactly once. Microsoft does not officially support SVG, you need a plugin.

Even Chrome does not support the SVG 1.1 standard fully, as per the wikipedia article.

Browsers need a standard, natively supported graphics library sigh...



The raphael library he writes about looks interesting, it uses vml for internet explorer and svg elsewhere.

I had never heard about vml. According to wikipedia it is used by google maps as a replacement for svg in ie. That surprised me too: svg is actually being used by a very useful site.


"Browsers need a standard, natively supported graphics library sigh..."

High performance as well. It's pointless if it only runs smoothly on your high-end Macbook.




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