Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9 152
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from the what-will-child-services-say dept.
from the what-will-child-services-say dept.
An anonymous reader writes "SVG has been a published standard for almost a decade. Microsoft has had nothing to do with it, even while every other major browser adopted SVG as a supported format and interface. Just in the last few weeks, though, Microsoft has thrown a surprising amount of its weight behind SVG." This means for IE 9, but it's a start.
Too Slow (Score:4, Funny)
Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
At this rate, IE 14 might actually be worth using!
On Hugs, Stilts, and Water (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yup (Score:3, Funny)
An MS apologists commented on the last article that it was impossible to run IE9 under XP because of the hardware rendering... clearly he doesn't know that A: DirectX entire point was to abstract hardware to the point it also (used to) support it purely running in software mode" and B: That all the other browsers have no such problem.
This is where people get confused so easily. For IE9 to work on XP, they would have to recreate the WDDM for XP. And when you do that, there are things in the WDDM that other levels of the OS do not have or understand, so essentially you are having to build XP into Vista.
This is why DX10 was impossible on XP as well, as the XPDM does not handle the low level video functions the same way nor do they have the features that are expected that the WDDM provides like VRAM virtualization and GPU Scheduling/Threading.
For Microsoft to build IE9 for XP they would either have to mire themselves in old code, which you admit would be stupid or rebuild XP's graphical model from the ground up, essentially makding Vista once again.
Why would you want XP to be catered to and the new technologies in Vista and Win7 should never be used because they can't work on XP. There truly are some BIG fundamental changes between the WDDM and XPDM and this is the key difference between Vista/Win7 and XP that prevents XP from getting DX10/11 and applications like IE9 with Direct2D, etc.