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By giizii, September 20, 2009 4:14 pm

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This was announced just two weeks before the conference start by @bradneuberg. Microsoft is joining IBM as gold sponsor for the SVG Open 2009 – “SVG coming of ege.”, hosted by Google in Mountain View, California 2-4 October. Wow!, what a nice display of big players supporting the event.

What does this mean? Are we finally going to have SVG support for Internet Explorer, or at least they are thinking about it? Even if they decide to do so, what do you think, how long it will take to have IE8 patch released with native SVG support? If they plan to do this, wait is going to be worth while. We alrady have ways around to render SVG in IE thanks to SVG Web, still in alpha though, getting better and better, but native support is best, right?

Personally, I would really like to see Microsoft going in this direction. It is all surreal to me to be true. But hey, they adopted jQuery as JS Library for the new .Net platform, who knows, maybe this guys are really starting to open up. But, I’m not going to get excited unless I see some real signals this is going to happen. Still very sceptical.

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By giizii, September 13, 2009 1:38 pm

When I mention SVG to a Flash Designer, some of them first look puzzled, and after explained it is “Scalable Vector Graphics, you know, the W3C recommendation tra-la-la…” they say: “Aaaaa… heard of it.”. I mean really, how can such a tech word appeal to old and new generations of designers, people this technology is aimed to? Right?

It is not only about vector graphics any more, but it is about mashing it with scripting, images and video to produce rich media content. It is about technique using group of technologies. SVG will never be practically used as static drawing on the web only, as the web is interactive, not static medium. We need to came up with funky name so when a designer try to impress his mates in the pub about the latest and greatest he is doing, it should really sound funky and cool. It is same as when the buzz-word AJAX appeared to replace “I’m designing Web2.0 apps using xmlHttpRequest.” with “I do AJAX.”

Only thing I know is we need a new name for content produced with SVG involved it in, but to what Something to think about until SVG Open 2009.