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Efferent
05-09-2007, 04:24 PM
I have seen a sample site recently developed by one of my friend. He use SVG as his main graphic format. The site is impressively graphical but has an extremely small size. May be only 1/3 or 1/4 of the bitmap equivalent.
I wonder how many people can view SVG today?
I know Firefox 1 and 2 have native support to SVG, but IE doesn't. It use plugin from Adobe. How many people have that plugin installed?
If the number is over 90% or 95%, I may considering moving to SVG as well. Button, tabs are good candidate for such format.
Ascendancy
05-09-2007, 10:25 PM
Well, I think that .svg files are a W3C recommended file to use for graphics, but a lot of people do not even know what that are or have never heard of that file type before, so it can present problems there. Plus, with people using older browsers that don't support that file type, they would try to view the site and it would look horrible.
Mr Initial Man
05-09-2007, 11:26 PM
Adobe is getting rid of the plugin, and most people haven't heard that it exists anyways. .svg isn't reliable just yet.
potterd64
05-10-2007, 05:36 PM
I'd guess that hardly anyone has that SVG plugin installed. Probably only developers!
EricG1793
05-10-2007, 06:01 PM
I have never heard of an SVG plugin. What's it enable one to do? Or how does it help in any way?
Mr Initial Man
05-10-2007, 07:10 PM
The SVG plugin allows IE to render SVG.
NOTE THIS: Opera has greater support for SVG than even Firefox; Firefox does not support filters, animation, etc.
drhowarddrfine
05-10-2007, 11:01 PM
I know Firefox 1 and 2 have native support to SVG, but IE doesn't. Another example of how IE holds back the web.
MarcD
05-13-2007, 04:18 PM
I have never heard of an SVG plugin. What's it enable one to do? Or how does it help in any way?
SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics.
It's an image format by Adobe which allows people to view Vector graphics on the web.
More info:
http://www.adobe.com/svg/
the tree
05-13-2007, 04:24 PM
It's an image format by AdobeErr no, it's by the W3C. Adobe have contributed enthusiastically and it is one of the pies they have their finger firmly placed in, but it's not theirs.
MarcD
05-13-2007, 04:37 PM
Err no, it's by the W3C. Adobe have contributed enthusiastically and it is one of the pies they have their finger firmly placed in, but it's not theirs.
Doh, indeed, my bad.
SVG is a royalty-free vendor-neutral open standard developed under the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Process.